American Civil War
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In 1859 John Brown led a party of
21 men in a successful attack on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry.
Brown hoped that his action would encourage slaves to join his
rebellion, enabling him to form an emancipation army. Two days later
the armouyr was stormed by Robert E. Lee and a company of marines.
Brown
and six men barricaded themselves in an engine-house, and continued to
fight until Brown was serious wounded and two of his sons had been
killed.
John
Brown was tried and convicted of insurrection, treason and murder. He
was executed on 2nd December, 1859. Six other men involved in the raid
were also hanged. The song, John
Brown's Body, commemorating the Harper's Ferry
raid, was a highly popular marching song with Republican soldiers
during the American Civil War.
