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John Brown
Date: Between 1860s and 1900s
Tintype photograph of a book page depicting a swivel gun and pike used by the Harpers Ferry outlays, and the school house in the mountains used by John Brown as and arsenal. Both sketched by Porte Crayon.
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John Brown pike
Creator: Collins Company
Date: between 1858 and 1859
John Brown ordered 950 iron pikes from the Collins Company of Connecticut for use during the hoped-for slave insurrection following his raid at the U.S. arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, October 18, 1859. Brown's army, made up of sixteen whites and five blacks, took hostages from the community and took over the arsenal. Brown's army was overwhelmed by U.S. troops led by Colonel Robert E. Lee. The pikes were found in a nearby Maryland farmhouse used by Brown to organize the raid. Brown was tried and hanged for treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia on December 2, 1859.
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Percussion lock revolver
Creator: Colt Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company
Date: 1849
First Model Dragoon Revolver. Six shot, 44 caliber single action steel revolver with walnut grips. Part round, part octagonal, 7 ½" barrel that is rifled with seven grooves. This revolver belonged to John Brown and was used by Albert G. Hazlett, one of Brown's men that aided in the raid on Harpers Ferry. Hazlett gave the revolver to Robert Smith who, in turn, passed it to his son Mathew A. Smith when Mathew enlisted at the start of the Civil War. Mathew then sold the gun to John M. Watson, who carried the gun for three years during the Civil War.
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