John Brown is cornered at Harpers Ferry and Robert E Lee's army rushes the armory doors. He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah.

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Sixty-one miles northwest of Washington, D.C., at the junction of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, Harpers Ferry was the site of a major federal armory, including a musket factory and rifle ...

John Brown is cornered at Harpers Ferry and Robert E Lee's army rushes the armory doors. He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah.

“It was our sister Armory, but not for long, because when Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861, that made Harpers Ferry a target. Union generals knew the Confederates would want to take over ...

Visit iconic landmarks like John Brown's Fort and the Harpers Ferry Armory, both pivotal in the abolitionist movement and Civil War. Then stroll quaint Main Street for its cobblestone streets ...

Tom Goheen, who works with the Harpers Ferry Armory in Ranson, West Virginia, said that the firearm seller had difficulty securing financing when they needed it because the business lacked a diversity ...

Harpers Ferry seemed almost a part of the neighborhood ... by their angry convergence made the site ideal for the national armory established there around 1800. It manufactured some 600,000 ...

Manufactured primarily at the Springfield Armory in Massachusetts ... Armories at both Springfield and Harpers Ferry produced about 275,000 Model 1842 between 1843 and 1855.

It’s hard to do Harpers Ferry wrong, but you’ll inch closer to “right” the more accurately you can summarize John Brown’s armory raid by heart. Read the facts back to yourself over a ...