Initial Fighting at the Engine House, Harpers Ferry, October, 1859, detail one

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Scanned by

John Osborne

Scan date

07/06/2006

Notes

Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 27, 2008.

Depicted ContentJohn Brown's attack on Harpers Ferry continues with the townspeople fighting back

Image type

engraving

Original caption

Harper's Ferry: The Fighting at the Engine House

Source citation

Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859; A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 444.

Source note

Cropped from the larger original, also available.

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