River Junction Press LLC. Gilbert, David T. (2005). "Harpers Ferry Armory & Arsenal". Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Photo Archives. Archived from...
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The Harpers Ferry Armory, more formally known as the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, was the second federal armory created by the United...
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of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, which, because of the U.S. arsenal there, was an important location during the Civil War. USS Harpers Ferry is assigned...
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Mills, master armorer [weaponmaker], Harpers Ferry Arsenal Mr. A. M. Ball, master machinist, Harpers Ferry Arsenal Mr. John E.P. Daingerfield or Dangerfield...
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77°43′49″W / 39.3228°N 77.7302°W / 39.3228; -77.7302 The Battle of Harpers Ferry was fought September 12–15, 1862, as part of the Maryland Campaign of...
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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, originally Harpers Ferry National Monument, is located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in...
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John Brown's Fort (category John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry)
for use as a guard and fire engine house by the federal Harpers Ferry Armory, in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia). An 1848 military...
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Armorer Arsenal Academy Arsenal, Mainz Dresden Armory Eddystone Arsenal Frankford Arsenal Halifax Armoury Harpers Ferry Armory Imperial Arsenal (Ottoman...
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modified at the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, by shortening the barrels and reboring and rerifling them to .54 caliber. The records at the arsenal are not exact...
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workshops at the Fayetteville Arsenal. Arms-making machinery from Harpers Ferry was installed in October 1861, and the arsenal became a major supplier of...
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M1819 Hall rifle (redirect from Harpers Ferry Model 1819)
The years of production were from the 1820s to the 1840s at the Harpers Ferry Arsenal. This was the first breech-loading rifle to be adopted in large...
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abolitionist John Brown led a band of 22 in a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia). The group of men varied...
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Falling Waters". "Harpers Ferry Armory and Arsenal - Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)". "Harpers Ferry during the Civil...
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Dangerfield Newby (section The raid on Harpers Ferry)
black raiders. He died during Brown's raid on the federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. As was usual at the time, Newby's skin color was mentioned:...
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Arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Several differences between the Springfield Model 1795 and the Harpers Ferry Model 1795 have led many to label the Harpers Ferry...
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Virginius Island, West Virginia (category Harpers Ferry, West Virginia)
Harpers Ferry's industry (aside from the Arsenal) and working-class housing: a boarding house and row houses. Virginius Island is part of the Harpers...
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Jeremiah Anderson (abolitionist) (category John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry)
the arsenal, the town, and then the rifle factory. Then, they wanted to free all the slaves in Harpers Ferry. The men marched into Harpers Ferry, disconnecting...
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Dixon Stansbury Miles (section Harpers Ferry)
mortally wounded as he surrendered his Union garrison in the Battle of Harpers Ferry during the American Civil War. Miles was born in Maryland. He graduated...
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Albert Hazlett (section Raid on Harper's Ferry)
was an American abolitionist, and participant in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (October 16 to 18, 1859). He was executed on March 15, 1860, in Charles...
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Lewis Washington (category John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry)
remembered today for his involuntary participation in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859. He was taken as hostage and some of his slaves were...
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John E.P. Daingerfield (category John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry)
to the Fayetteville Arsenal from Harpers Ferry that same year. Maj. John C. Booth, commanding officer at the Fayetteville Arsenal, appointed him military...
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a force of 2,400 men led by Harper and Brig. Gen. William H. Harman seized the U.S. Army arsenal located at Harpers Ferry in modern-day West Virginia...
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there were still M1817 rifles in the Bencia, California arsenal in the 1860s. Harpers Ferry M1803 Rifles in the American Civil War Robert P. Broadwater...
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Springfield Armory (redirect from Springfield Arsenal)
a huge organ, rise the burnished arms." With the destruction of the Harpers Ferry Armory early in the American Civil War, the Springfield Armory was briefly...
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them were destroyed when the Confederate military captured the Harpers Ferry arsenal in April 1861, and several thousand more were in Southern hands...
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weapons was primarily that captured at the United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, which was previously used to produce the US Model 1855 Rifle...
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Virginia Manufactory of Arms (redirect from Richmond Arsenal)
Virginia for delivery to Richmond. The Old State Armory building with Harpers Ferry Machinery was transferred to Confederate States control in June 1861...
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Minié rifle. In 1855, James Burton, a machinist at the U.S. Armory at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, improved the Minié ball further by eliminating the metal...
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John Brown (abolitionist) (category John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry)
Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859. An evangelical Christian of strong religious convictions...
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John Edwin Cook (category People from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia)
was one of John Brown's raiders who participated fully in his raid on Harpers Ferry. He was the youngest of seven children of Nathaniel and Mary Cook, of...
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