On the morning of Tuesday, October 18, Lee ordered Lieutenant Israel Green and a group of men to storm the engine house. At a signal fro

John Brown, still recovering from a sword wound, stood trial at the Jefferson County Courthouse on October 26. Five days later, a jury found him guilty of treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia. Judge Richard Parker sentenced Brown to death and he was hanged in Charles Town on December 2. Before walking to the scaffold, he noted the inevitability of a national civil war: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood."

Northern abolitionists immediately used the executions as an example of the government's support of slavery.

m Lieutenant J.E.B. Stuart, the engine house door was knocked down and and the Marines began taking prisoners. James Ewell Brown, (Jeb), as a first lieutenant in the

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