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Harpers Ferry

            
             In Harpers Ferry history many important historical events have occurred including raids, captures and recaptures. Robert Harper purchased the site in 1747 and operated ferries over two rivers. Harpers Ferry was an important military outpost and armory.
             Harper's Ferry became a milling, manufacturing and a transportation center. John Brown's raid in 1859 was an important event before the civil war. He went to take over the federal arsenal; he hoped to start a rebellion of slaves. Although many southerners were worried of a slave revolt. Except no one slave joined John Brown in the Harpers Ferry revolt.
             At the beginning of the civil war the Virginia government planned on taking over the arsenal and armory at Harpers Ferry. The Union forces at Harpers Ferry withdrew after destroying buildings and supplies that were important to the military. Confederate troops under Joseph E. Johnston occupied Harpers Ferry from April to June 1861. They abandoned it. .
             Union troops took control of the town until September 15, 1862 when General Stonewall Jackson took over during General Robert E. Lee's invasion of Maryland. Later Lee was defeated at Antietam; again a Union Garrison took control. While Lee's Gettysburg campaign was occurring in July 1863 Harpers Ferry was captured and recaptured. It was controlled by the Union during most of the rest of the war. .
             In conclusion Harpers Ferry was an infamous site of a slave rebellion with no slaves. It was controlled by both sides during the Civil War and was important due to the food and military supplies that were held inside. Later it was turned into a Historical park in 1944. Harpers Ferry is still run with seasonal guesthouses and a good historical site to visit.
            


Essays Related to Harpers Ferry

1. Harper

Five years prior to the raid of Harper's Ferry, the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act passed by Congress broadened the gap between the two opposing sides. ... During the three years between the Pottawatomie Massacre and his raid on Harper's Ferry, Brown and his constituents were actively engaged in guerilla warfare. ... In the spring of 1858, Brown decided that the place to strike would be the small town of Harper's Ferry, in northern Virginia. He chose Harper's Ferry because it contained a United States arsenal, which could provide arms for his followers. Around midnight on Oc...

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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

2. Harper

Five years prior to the raid of Harper's Ferry, the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act passed by Congress broadened the gap between the two opposing sides. ... During the three years between the Pottawatomie Massacre and his raid on Harper's Ferry, Brown and his constituents were actively engaged in guerilla warfare. ... In the spring of 1858, Brown decided that the place to strike would be the small town of Harper's Ferry, in northern Virginia. He chose Harper's Ferry because it contained a United States arsenal, which could provide arms for his followers. Around midnight on Oc...

  • Word Count: 1858
  • Approx Pages: 7
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

3. Could the Civil War Have Been Avoided?

With the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the Harpers Ferry Incident, and a series of political issues, the chasm between North and South grew even deeper, making war impossible to avoid. ... In October 1859, Brown seized the weapons arsenal at Harpers Ferry, where seven innocent people were killed and another ten injured. ... The Harpers Ferry incident had immense ramifications. ...

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4. Slavery Revolts

The last insurrection, Harper's Ferry, Led by john Brown was in October 1859. ... Harper's Ferry had an arsenal because in 1794, President George Washington had selected Harper's Ferry, Virginia, as one of the sites for the new national armories. John Brown moved to a farm near Harper's Ferry and took up the alias of Isaac Smith. ... Turner, and Harper's Ferry Mayor Fontaine Beckham. ... Lee to Harper's Ferry with a force of Marines to crush Brown's Rebellion. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

5. Biography of Colonel John Singleton Mosby

It seems from both publications that the timeline is congruent when Harpers Ferry would be controlled by the Confederates. Mosby goes on to illustrate at Harpers Ferry, on April 27, 1861 Stonewall Jackson was ordered to the command of the troops there as it was, "a place of great strategic value for the Confederates. ... " It appears that Harpers Ferry was of great value according to Mosby as it allowed for the oversight of what Patterson's Army was doing just fifty miles below the gap. ... I would be remiss if I failed to mention that it is here at Harpers Ferry where Mosby ind...

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  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

6. The Battle Of Antietam

Lee divided his army and send half of them with General Stonewall Jackson to Harpers Ferry. ... On September 15 Union force surrendered to Jackson at Harpers Ferry.Jackson left with his troops and joined Lee while General A.P Hill stayed behind to oversee the Union army. ... Finally, he closed on Lee, but just as Burnside approached Lee, General Hills troops arrived from Harpers Ferry and they pushed Burnside back toward Antietam Creek. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

7. Decade in Crisis

One issue which caused the South's secession was John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry; the South saw this as a Northern plot to destroy the Southerners way of life, which extremely angered the South. ...

  • Word Count: 385
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8. Civil War

Slavery, the Missouri Compromise, and John Brown's attack on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, were some of the many causes. ... He and his band of 21 men attacked the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. ... The actions of slavery, the Missouri Compromise, and John Brown's attack on Harpers Ferry were significant in causing the Civil War. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

9. The battle of anteitam

Lee split up his army of fifty thousand men, sending "Stonewall" Jackson to capture the Union arsenal at Harper's Ferry. ... On September 15, "Stonewall" Jackson captured Harper's Ferry and was moving to join up with Lee at Sharpsburg. ... Hill arrived with his men from Harper's Ferry and drove the Yankees back to Antietam Creek. ...

  • Word Count: 802
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

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