Harpers Ferry

Harpers Ferry saw two important people, John Brown and “Stonewall” Jackson. Of course, every body that knows about the Civil War should know about John Brown because he was the person who lit the fuse for the Civil War. Brown was against slavery and he swore that he would die than rather let slavery spread. So he came up with a plan. Brown wanted to take the armory so if slaves came; he could arm them so they could fight. On the day of the attack, Brown, his loyal subjects and his 3 sons when to pro-slavery house to house and took prisoners. The others they killed. After that, they and the prisoners proceeded onto Harpers Ferry. Surprisingly, the first person they killed was a black man. Brown’s army did secure the armory and they waited, and waited, and waited but no slaves came to help. One of the problems was that none of the slaves knew that this was happening so no one came to help. The next day, solders came to put down this attack. The solders were led by no other than General Lee him self. Lee sent a messenger to tell Brown to surrender and give over the prisoners. Brown said no. Lee told his men to attack. After the battle, Brown had been shot and was wounded but alive. The court was swift and quick and he was accused guilty and sentenced to be hanged. On the day of the execution, Brown was brought on a cart and he sat on his own coffin. Before he was hanged, Brown spoke these words, “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.” but that wasn’t the only famous person who came to Harpers Ferry. Jackson also came here to take the city because of its important person that Vi. Jackson fought Dixson S. Miles and he defeated him hands down.  Another cool fact is that Tomas Jefferson, in his presidency, went there and found a large rock. He wanted to sit on it and stare across the city but it looked so unstable that it looked like it could fall any minuet.  So his escort of solders put up pillars so it wouldn’t fall.

Paw Paw and Zoe next to Jefferson's rock.