Authors: Tony Horwitz
Tags: #John Brown, #Abolition, #Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War Hardcover – Bargain Price (54 page)
Vaill, Rev. H. L.
Virginia
Virginia Military Institute
Virginia Supreme Court
“Voice from Harper’s Ferry, A” (Anderson)
Voorhees, Daniel
Virginia
borders closed for Brown’s hanging
secession of
slavery in
West Virginia separated from
Virginia Assemblysecession of
slavery in
West Virginia separated from
Virginia Military Institute
Virginia Supreme Court
“Voice from Harper’s Ferry, A” (Anderson)
Voorhees, Daniel
Walker, William
War Department
War of 1812
Washington, Augustus
Washington, George
Washington, Martha
Washington, D.C.
Washington
Evening Star
Weiner, Theodore
Western Reserve
West Virginia
Westward expansion
Whelan, Daniel
Whipple, Colonel.
See
Stevens, Aaron
White, Edward
Whitman, Walt
Wilkinson, Allen
Wilkinson, Louisa Jane
Williams, Bill
Winchester militia
Wise, Henry
“Words of Advice” (Brown)
World’s Fair (Chicago)
War Department
War of 1812
Washington, Augustus
Washington, George
sword of
Washington, LewisWashington, Martha
Washington, D.C.
Washington
Evening Star
Weiner, Theodore
Western Reserve
West Virginia
Westward expansion
Whelan, Daniel
Whipple, Colonel.
See
Stevens, Aaron
White, Edward
Whitman, Walt
Wilkinson, Allen
Wilkinson, Louisa Jane
Williams, Bill
Winchester militia
Wise, Henry
background of
Brown’s hanging and
Civil War and
Copeland’s remains and
Douglass’s speech and
Harpers Ferry raid and
Mary’s appeal to, on remains
northern conspiracy suspected by
raiders trials and hangings and
on slaves’ loyalty
Virginia Assembly and
women’s suffrage movementBrown’s hanging and
Civil War and
Copeland’s remains and
Douglass’s speech and
Harpers Ferry raid and
Mary’s appeal to, on remains
northern conspiracy suspected by
raiders trials and hangings and
on slaves’ loyalty
Virginia Assembly and
“Words of Advice” (Brown)
World’s Fair (Chicago)
Tony Horwitz is the best-selling author of
Confederates in the Attic, A Voyage Long and Strange, Blue Latitudes,
and
Baghdad Without a Map
and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who has worked for
The Wall Street Journal
and
The New Yorker
. He has also been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and a visiting scholar at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University.
Confederates in the Attic, A Voyage Long and Strange, Blue Latitudes,
and
Baghdad Without a Map
and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who has worked for
The Wall Street Journal
and
The New Yorker
. He has also been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and a visiting scholar at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University.
He lives on Martha’s Vineyard with his wife, Geraldine Brooks, and their two sons.
A Voyage Long and Strange
Blue Latitudes
Confederates in the Attic
Baghdad Without a Map
One for the Road
Blue Latitudes
Confederates in the Attic
Baghdad Without a Map
One for the Road
Copyright © 2011 by Tony Horwitz All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Horwitz, Tony, 1958–
Midnight rising: John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War / Tony Horwitz.—1st ed. p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)—History—John Brown’s Raid, 1859. 2. Brown, John, 1800–1859. 3. Abolitionists—United States—Biography. I. Title.
E451.H77 2011
973.7’116–dc22 2011015659
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