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Kennedy Farmhouse Brown's Headquarters

Kennedy Farmhouse Brown's Headquarters Civil War
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Stock #:181290
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
Publisher: National Tribune
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
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In June, 1859. John Brown leased for a few months the unoccupied Kennedy Farm in Maryland, about six miles from Harpers Ferry. He was joined there by twenty-one persons. Boxes of arms, ammunition and supplies where shipped to him there and he made ready for his raid. He made this his base of supplies, and when he started on his raid three men remained on guard at the house."
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