According to Horwitz, there's an argument to be made that the Civil War began in 1859 at Harpers Ferry, rather than in 1861 at Fort Sumter or Manassas, because that's where things really started ...

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry amplified North / South tensions and is viewed by many as a contributing factor to the outbreak of Civil War, some even calling it the first shots of that conflict, ...

So our family set out to explore the Civil War era by visiting the battlefields of Gettysburg, Antietam, Harper’s Ferry, First and Second Bull Run and Fredericksburg, three field hospitals, and ...

Catherine Baldau, executive director of the Harpers Ferry Park Association, “People will get a new, fresh idea of what it was like and what happened during the raid,” Baldau said.

HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. (AP) — Civil War firepower will be on display at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. The living history staff and volunteers with the 13th New Jersey infantry will ...

The Harpers Ferry 'Rising' That Hastened Civil War On the evening of Oct. 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown led 21 men down the road to Harpers Ferry in what is today West Virginia.