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.

John Brown’s Day of Reckoning The abolitionist’s bloody raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry 150 years ago set the stage for the Civil War ...

With Harpers Ferry a smoldering pile of ashes, the Springfield Armory became the sole supplier of weapons to the U.S. military. The government did purchase firearms from private contractors, but ...

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 ...

John Brown and the Secret Six—the abolitionists who funded the raid on Harpers Ferry—confronted a question as old as America: When is violence justified?

> Manufactured by: Springfield Armory, Harpers Ferry Armory From the late 18th to the mid-19th centuries, the United States military was outfitted with several models of the Springfield U.S. musket.

On Oct. 16, 1859, fiery abolitionist John Brown and 21 fellow raiders attacked the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry in what was at that time Virginia, the largest slave-holding state in the Union.