Jeremiah Anderson

U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry, 1803

(Courtesy of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Harpers Ferry, WV.)

Armory engine-house in late 19th century

(Courtesy of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Harpers Ferry, WV.)

Burning of the Arsenal at Harpers Ferry

(Courtesy of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Harpers Ferry, WV. Originally published in Harper’s Weekly, May 11, 1861.)

Newspaper illustration of marines storming engine-house

(Courtesy of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Harpers Ferry, WV. Originally published in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Oct. 29, 1859.)

Harpers Ferry in 1859, from hill behind town

(Courtesy of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Harpers Ferry, WV.)

John Brown in Boston, May, 1859

(Courtesy of Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, Harpers Ferry, WV. Original courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division.)

Brown’s four surviving sons in old age, Owen at lower right

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection)

Brown’s last prophecy

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection)

Brown riding on his coffin to the gallows

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection. Originally published in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Dec. 17, 1859.)

Brown in his prison cell

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection. Originally published in New York Illustrated News, Dec. 10, 1859)

David Strother sketch of Brown and Stevens in paymaster’s office

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection. Originally published in Harper’s Weekly, Nov. 5, 1859.)

Robert E. Lee

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection.)

Maryland schoolhouse Brown used as an arsenal

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection. Originally published in Harper’s Weekly, Nov. 12, 1859.)

George Luther Stearns, one of the Secret Six

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection)

Charlestown courtroom with Brown on cot at left-center

(Courtesy of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Harpers Ferry, WV. Originally published in Harper’s Weekly, Nov. 12, 1859)

Samuel Gridley Howe, one of the Secret Six

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection)

Lewis Leary

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection)

John Brown in late 1856

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection)

Frederick Douglass

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection)

Courthouse and street scene, Charlestown Va. 1859

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection. Originally published in Harper’s Weekly, Nov. 5, 1859.)

William Thompson

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection)

Watson Brown

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection)

Oliver and Martha Brown

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection)

Front gate of U.S. Armory, engine-house the first building on left

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection.)

William Leeman

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection.)

John Copeland

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection)

Dauphin Thompson

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection)

Panorama of Harpers Ferry from the Maryland shore

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection. Originally published in Harper’s Weekly, Oct. 29, 1859)

Dangerfield Newby, ca. 1858

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection)

John Brown’s wife, Mary, with daughters Annie and Sarah, ca. 1851

(Courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection)

Lewis Washington and his home, Beallair

(Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division.)

Henry Wise

(Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division.)

Osborne Anderson

One of Brown’s men

Charles Tidd

(Courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society.)

John Brown in Boston, May, 1859

(Courtesy of Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, Harpers Ferry, WV. Original courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division.)

Shields Green and John Copeland in prison cell with Albert Hazlett

(Courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society. Originally published in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Dec. 10, 1859.)

The Kennedy Farmhouse, 1859

(Courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society. Originally published in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Nov. 26, 1859.)

Political cartoon, showing Douglas and Pierce at left

(Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division.)

Gerrit Smith

(Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division.)

William Lloyd Garrison

(Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division.)