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  • Or traitors who had potentially seized a massive cache of weapons at Harper's Ferry?

    Michael Giltz: The Civil War Rages On...In Books, Music and DVD Michael Giltz 2011

  • Or traitors who had potentially seized a massive cache of weapons at Harper's Ferry?

    Michael Giltz: The Civil War Rages On...In Books, Music and DVD Michael Giltz 2011

  • That's by the way, and if I've told you of Grey and Africa at some length, well, I'm bound to record these things, and it was a queer start altogether, and he was an odd bird - but the point is that if he hadn't thought he could use me, he'd never have dined me that night, or shown me off to Cape society. and I'd never have heard of Harper's Ferry.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • For example, downtown Frederick, Md., is within driving distance of several shrines for Civil War enthusiasts, including Gettysburg, Antietam and Harper's Ferry.

    America's Best Neighborhoods 2010 Brian Wingfield 2010

  • It's how I see him still, laughing deep in his throat, slap-ping his thigh, the great beard shaking and his eyes dancing with merriment - old Ossawatomie, who sabred five unarmed men to death in cold blood, and blew hell out of Harper's Ferry.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • You see, until now, I hadn't thought beyond J. B.'s intended capture of Harper's Ferry - why should I, when I didn't believe it would ever happen?

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • For example, downtown Frederick, Md., is within driving distance of several shrines for Civil War enthusiasts, including Gettysburg, Antietam and Harper's Ferry.

    America's Best Neighborhoods 2010 Brian Wingfield 2010

  • It was in this spirit that I was able to roger that houri in Borneo during the Batang Lupar battle, whimpering fearfully the while, and do justice to Mrs Popplewell while in flight from the outraged townsfolk of Harper's Ferry.

    Watershed 2010

  • BLOCK: Mark Barlay (ph) of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, writes this: Profit is the money leftover after the bills are paid, bills like the $400,000 tooling machine or the person running it.

    Letters: Small Businesses And Tax Cuts 2010

  • Bad Luck Indeed, for the upshot was that against all the odds, and in spite of all his follies and hesitations and mismanagement, John Brown was given what he had no right to expect; a clear run at Harper's Ferry.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

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