Harpers Ferry

Harpers Ferry, Virginia is a town that looms large in U.S.-C.S. history and relations. In 1859, John Brown led a raid on the US armory in Harpers Ferry, hoping to capture enough weapons to arm a slave army which could wage a guerrilla war against the US. His band of raiders were defeated and captured or killed by a United States Army detachment commanded by Robert E. Lee.

In 1944, Confederate General Clarence Potter passed through Harpers Ferry on his mission to plant a superbomb in Philadelphia in the final days of the Second Great War.