Name: The Meteor of the War – The Upper Ohio Valley Responds to John Brown’s Raid
Start: 2024-10-15T12:00:00-04:00
Location: 52-16th Street, Wheeling, WV, United States, West Virginia 26003

$The Meteor of the War \u2013 The Upper Ohio Valley Responds to John Brown\u2019s Raid$

John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry is considered a cataclysmic event that catapulted the United States towards civil war. Though situated more than 200 miles from Harpers Ferry, Brown’s raid reverberated deeply across the Upper Ohio Valley, where Brown and several of his raiders were personally known, and their cause championed or condemned. Jon-Erik Gilot, author of "John Brown's Raid: Harpers Ferry and the Coming of the Civil War, October 16-18, 1859" (Emerging Civil War Series), will examine local connections to the raid, as well as reactions and fallout on both sides of the Ohio River, from the Wheeling militia companies who were present at Brown’s execution to the arms race along Virginia’s western border.