Tonight, in 1859: John Brown and twenty-one raiders attacked Harpers Ferry (still part of Virginia) and captured the United States Arsenal there in an attempt to start a slave rebellion. The war began not at Sumter, wrote future Confederate cavalry officer Turner Ashby, but at Harpers Ferry. Read more, via Encyclopedia Virginia encyclopediavirginia.org/Harpers_Ferry_During_the_Civil_War Image courtesy The Library of Congress.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:23:10 +0000
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