“He captured Harper's Ferry with his nineteen men so true,
He frightened old Virginia till she trembled through and through,
They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew,
But his soul goes marching on
Glory, glory hallelujah!”
"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done."- Capt. John Brown, 02-December-1859