P Forbidden In Downtown Harpers Ferry
by Don Struke
Title
P Forbidden In Downtown Harpers Ferry
Artist
Don Struke
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Photograph - Digital Photo
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Few American Civil War towns changed hands as often as Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. This old building was seen by many a Yankee and Johnny Reb soldier. To the right of this location fewer than a hundred yards away, slavery abolitionist John Brown tried to incite a revolution by seizing the Federal Armory in 1859. Commanding the U.S. troops who took him prisoner after the killing of a number of participants on both sides was Robert E. Lee. One of Lee's officers was young army lieutenant "Jeb" Stuart. Witnesses at Brown's hanging six weeks later included Walt Whitman, John Wilkes Booth, and another U.S. officer who later joined the Confederacy with Lee and Stuart, Thomas Jackson, who became known as "Stonewall" Jackson during the first Battle of Bull Run in 1861. Harpers Ferry is loaded with Civil War history, as are many small Virginia towns.
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Comments (4)
Brenda Pressnall
history in pastels. lovely.
Don Struke replied:
Brenda, thank you. I've been to Harpers Fery probably 20 or 30 times through the years and for an old town there's always something new to photograph. I do wish that red No Parking sign was not there.
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