His target was the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded ... Their problems began when a train approached town. The baggage master ran to warn the passengers.

Library of Congress Harpers Ferry, Virginia ... Guards were posted at the bridges. Telegraph lines were cut. The railroad station was seized. It was there that the raid's first casualty occurred ...

For years, a National Park Service webpage introduced the Underground Railroad with a large photograph of its most famous “conductor,” Harriet Tubman. “The Underground Railroad—the resistance to ...

HARPER's FERRY, Friday, July 26 ... He was allowed to move on the railroad without let or hindrance. And while 23,000 men were kept on the move from one place to another we have done absolutely ...

He rented a farm in Maryland, across the Potomac River from Harpers Ferry. Here he assembled his ... relayed by the conductor of an express train heading to Baltimore, reached President Buchanan.