The "Civil War Showcase" in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, offers an immersive experience of the Civil War era. Visitors are greeted at a replica of John Brown's engine house and can explore ...

His name was John Brown. Some of those who strode across a covered railway bridge from Maryland into Virginia were callow ... the Browns moved west in an ox-drawn wagon to the raw wilderness ...

John Brown was a man of ... Missouri for the rest of the year. Brown returned to the east and began to think more seriously about his plan for a war in Virginia against slavery.