Harpers Ferry

or Harper's Ferry

[ hahr-perz ]

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noun

a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.

Harper's Ferry

/ ˈhɑːpəz /

a village in NE West Virginia, at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers: site of an arsenal seized by John Brown (1859). Pop: 302 (2003 est)

Harpers Ferry

The place now in West Virginia where the militant abolitionist John Brown was captured in 1859, after he seized a federal arsenal there.

William B. Taliaferro was the commander of the Virginia Militia at Harpers Ferry.

He was a recruit, who came to us at Harpers Ferry, in the winter of 1863-64.

Under the influence of the really great Latrobe, an iron span of 124 feet was built in 1852 at Harpers Ferry.

On the morning of July 17 we broke camp and started for Harpers Ferry, thirty miles distant.

We started on our march to Clarksburg in the afternoon, to go by way of Harpers Ferry to take the cars there, to the former place.

Our regiment by daylight that morning crossed over to Harpers Ferry.

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