The Storming of the Engine House, October 18, 1859, detail

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John Osborne

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07/01/2006

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Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 27, 2008.

Depicted ContentJohn Brown's attack on Harpers Ferry ends when Marines storm the Engine House

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engraving

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The Storming of the Engine House

Source citation

Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859; A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 452.

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Cropped from the larger image, also available.

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