John Brown's Raid: Harpers Ferry and the Coming of the Civil War, October 16-18, 1859 (Jon-Erik M. Gilot, Kevin R. Pawlak - CH) home identifies an array of helmets

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would fight on through many of the major battles of the Civil War

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John Brown's Raid: Harpers Ferry and the Coming of the Civil War, October 16-18, 1859 (Jon-Erik M. Gilot, Kevin R. Pawlak - CH) home identifies an array of helmetsby Jon Erik M. Gilot & Kevin R. Pawlak The first shot of the American Civil War was not fired on April 12, 1861, in Charleston, South Carolina, but instead came on October 16, 1859, in Harpers Ferry, Virginiaor so claimed former slave turned abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The shot came like a meteor in the dark. John Brown, the infamous fighter on the Kansas plains and detester of slavery, led a band of nineteen men on a desperate nighttime raid