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United States Quarter Dollar Coin West Virginia 2016
Country: United States
Type: Circulating Commemorative Coin
Year: 2016
Value: Quarter Dollar
Metal: Copper Nickel Clad Copper
Weight: 5.67g
Diameter: 24.3mm
Thickness: 1.75mm
Shape: Round
Commemorative issue
United States Mint's America the Beautiful Quarters® Program
Obverse
The portrait in left profile of George Washington, the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797, is accompanied with the motto IN GOD WE TRUST and the lettering LIBERTY surrounded with the denomination and the inscription UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Lettering:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
IN
GOD WE
TRUST
LIBERTY P
JF WC
QUARTER DOLLAR
Engraver: William Cousins (Original Design: John Flanagan)
Reverse
The John Brown Fort, the site of John Brown’s last stand during his raid on the Harper’s Ferry Armory. Inscriptions are “HARPERS FERRY,” “WEST VIRGINIA,” “JOHN BROWN'S FORT,” “2016” and “E PLURIBUS UNUM.”
Lettering:
HARPERS FERRY
TRH PH
JOHN BROWN'S
FORT
WEST VIRGINIA 2016 E PLURIBUS UNUM
Engraver: Phebe Hemphill (Designer: Thomas Hipschen)
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John Brown Assessed 150 Years After Harpers Ferry Raid
In the early 19th century, the United States was divided on the issue of slavery. In the south, slaves worked on large plantations and were critical to the production of cotton, tobacco and other cash crops. Some Americans advocated the abolishment of slavery. One man decided to take action by taking over Harpers Ferry, a small Virginia town with a major armory. John Brown's raid began on October 16th, 150 years ago. Brown was executed for his actions in December 1859. But even though long ago, his bid to end slavery is still being debated. VOA's Susan Logue reports.
APMEX Silver Coins | 2016 5 oz Silver ATB Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, WV
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is the third release in 2016 of the U.S. Mint's popular America the Beautiful series. Click here to view and purchase these Silver Harper's Ferry Coins.
This coin commemorates the efforts of John Brown and his men capturing the fire house, now known as John Brown's Fort at Harpers Ferry, West Virgina, in an effort to supply weapons for an army of abolitionists. These coins are sought after by investors for their .999 fine Silver content, and demanded by collectors for their artistic value.
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Contains 5 oz of .999 fine Silver.
Individual coins come in capsules. Multiples of 10 come in mint-issued tubes without capsules. Orders of 100 come in mint-issued monster boxes also without capsules.
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Obverse: Portrait of George Washington originally designed by John Flanagan, with the inscriptions of United States of America, Liberty, In God We Trust and Quarter Dollar.
Reverse: Depicts the armory where abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the Harpers Ferry in 1859 in an attempt to secure arms and mobilize an abolitionist army deep into the heart of the Old Dominion.
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Harpers Ferry Information
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, West Virginia was chosen for the America The Beautiful series for its historical significance and beautiful natural surroundings. Declared a National Park in 1963, the park includes the historic town of Harpers Ferry and the surrounding area. Harpers Ferry was also a notable center of industry in the 19th century. In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led an armed group in the capture of the armory where he hoped to arm a group of slaves in an attempt to overthrow slavery. The landmark is often seen as one of the early flash points of the Civil War.
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John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry | Wikipedia audio article
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John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
00:00:44 1 Brown's preparation
00:04:05 2 Advance knowledge of raid
00:06:59 3 The raid
00:07:08 3.1 October 16
00:08:40 3.2 October 17
00:10:29 3.3 October 18
00:12:41 3.4 October 19
00:13:30 4 Aftermath
00:16:31 5 Casualties
00:16:40 5.1 John Brown's raiders
00:22:05 5.2 Others
00:23:00 6 Liberated slaves
00:23:20 7 Legacy
00:23:29 7.1 Heritage Area
00:24:01 7.2 In Popular Culture
00:24:44 8 See also
00:25:00 9 Notes
00:25:09 9.1 Citations
00:25:17 10 Further reading
00:27:41 11 External links
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (also known as John Brown's raid or The raid on Harpers Ferry) was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's party of 22 was defeated by a company of U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene. Colonel Robert E. Lee was in overall command of the operation to retake the arsenal. John Brown had originally asked Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, both of whom he had met in his transformative years as an abolitionist in Springfield, Massachusetts, to join him in his raid, but Tubman was prevented by illness and Douglass declined, as he believed Brown's plan would fail.
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9. John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary?
The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119)
Professor Blight narrates the momentous events of 1857, 1858, and 1859. The lecture opens with an analysis of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. Next, Blight analyzes the Dred Scott decision and discusses what it meant for northerners--particularly African Americans--to live in the land of the Dred Scott decision. The lecture then shifts to John Brown. Professor Blight begins by discussing the way that John Brown has been remembered in art and literature, and then offers a summary of Brown's life, closing with his raid on Harpers Ferry in October of 1859.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction
04:04 - Chapter 2. A House Divided: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
10:12 - Chapter 3. Implications of the Dred Scott Decision and the Panic of 1857
23:48 - Chapter 4. John Brown: His Early Life and Beliefs
45:13 - Chapter 5. Planning the Raid on Harpers Ferry
50:34 - Chapter 6. Brown's Capture and Conclusion
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John Brown (abolitionist) | Wikipedia audio article
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John Brown (abolitionist)
00:02:24 1 Early life
00:07:20 2 Transformative years in Springfield, Massachusetts
00:13:07 3 Homestead in New York
00:13:47 4 Actions in Kansas
00:14:48 4.1 Pottawatomie
00:17:23 4.2 Palmyra and Osawatomie
00:19:53 5 Later years
00:20:02 5.1 Gathering forces
00:27:37 5.2 Raid
00:33:37 5.3 Imprisonment, trial, and six weeks in jail
00:37:29 5.4 Victor Hugo's reaction
00:39:17 6 Death and aftermath
00:40:40 6.1 Transportation of his body
00:41:56 6.2 Senate investigation
00:43:54 6.3 Aftermath of the raid
00:46:04 7 Legacy
00:46:13 7.1 Monuments
00:48:30 7.1.1 Historical markers
00:54:36 7.2 Views of contemporaries
00:55:26 7.3 Views of historians and other writers
00:57:52 7.4 Historiography
01:02:37 7.5 In the arts
01:05:50 8 Influences
01:11:09 9 See also
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John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist who believed in and advocated armed insurrection as the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. He first gained attention when he led small groups of volunteers during the Bleeding Kansas crisis of 1856. He was dissatisfied with the pacifism of the organized abolitionist movement: These men are all talk. What we need is action—action! In May 1856, Brown and his supporters killed five supporters of slavery in the Pottawatomie massacre, which responded to the sacking of Lawrence by pro-slavery forces. Brown then commanded anti-slavery forces at the Battle of Black Jack (June 2) and the Battle of Osawatomie (August 30, 1856).
In October 1859, Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (today West Virginia) to start a liberation movement among the slaves there. He seized the armory, but seven people were killed, and ten or more were injured. He intended to arm slaves with weapons from the arsenal, but the attack failed. Within 36 hours, Brown's men had fled or been killed or captured by local farmers, militiamen, and US Marines led by Robert E. Lee. He was tried for treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, the murder of five men (including 3 blacks), and inciting a slave insurrection, was found guilty on all counts, and was hanged.
Historians agree that the Harpers Ferry raid escalated tensions that led to the South's secession a year later and the American Civil War. Brown's raid captured the nation's attention; Southerners feared that it was just the first of many Northern plots to cause a slave rebellion that might endanger their lives, while Republicans dismissed the notion and claimed that they would not interfere with slavery in the South. John Brown's Body was a popular Union marching song that portrayed him as a martyr.
Brown's actions as an abolitionist and the tactics he used still make him a controversial figure today. He is both memorialized as a heroic martyr and visionary, and vilified as a madman and a terrorist. Historian James Loewen surveyed American history textbooks and noted that historians considered Brown perfectly sane until about 1890, but generally portrayed him as insane from about 1890 until 1970 when new interpretations began to gain ground.
The Life and Times of John Brown
Was John Brown a hero or terrorist? The answer is not so simple. In this documentary, Mr. Beat examines the life and times of the most (in)famous abolitionist in history.
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Sources/further reading:
Fire From the Midst of You: A Religious Life of John Brown by Louis A. DeCaro (2002)
Brown, Justus Newton (September–October 1916). Lovejoy's Influence on John Brown. Magazine of History with Notes and Queries. 23 (3–4). pp. 97–102.
Great video about the Battle of Black Jack:
John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut on May 9, 1800. His parents, Owen and Ruth Brown. He was the fourth one born of their eight kids.
No, he didn’t look like that when he was a baby. No one knows what he looked like when he was a baby, silly.
Brown’s family moved around a lot when he was a kid, but he spent most of his youth in Ohio. He had a very religious upbringing. Owen and Ruth also raised John to absolutely hate slavery. At 16 years old, he left his family and went to Plainfield, Massachusetts, where he studied to become a Congregationalist minister. Ultimately, though, Brown went into the same business as his dad. He raised cattle and worked as a tanner. You know, making leather from animal skins. At one point he was also a surveyor. You know, checking out the land and stuff.
In 1820, he married Dianthe Lusk. The couple eventually had 7 children together, and ended up settling in New Richmond, Pennsylvania. This is what’s left of the tannery John Brown ran while living there. Between 1825 and 1835, the tannery was an important stop on the Underground Railroad. No it wasn’t an actual railroad, you silly goose. The Underground Railroad was just what they called the secret network of routes and safe houses used to aid runaway slaves. It’s estimated that Brown helped more than 2,500 slaves at that tannery.
The 1830s didn’t begin so well for Brown. In 1831, his 4-year old son Frederick died. Brown himself got really sick and his businesses struggled, causing him to get in big debt. The next year, Dianthe died while giving birth to an unnamed son who also died shortly afterward. Clearly, this was a low point in Brown’s life, but he soon met someone new...Mary Ann Day. She was 16. He was 32. They married on June 14, 1833. Eventually, they had 13 more kids together, although only six of them made it to adulthood.
In 1836, the Browns moved to what is now Kent, Ohio. The next year, after a pro-slavery mob murdered the influential abolitionist Elijah Parish Lovejoy, Brown stood up in the back of a church and said “Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery.”
Meanwhile, in Ohio he had attempted again to operate a tannery, but struggled to make money from it. By 1839, he was again heavily in debt, and ended up losing his farm and getting arrested when he refused to give it up to its new owner. A federal court declared him bankrupt on September 28, 1842. The next year, four of his kids died of dysentery.
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American Experience: John Brown’s Holy War, produced and directed by Robert Kenner (PBS, 2000)
Albert Marrin, A Volcano Beneath the Snow: John Brown’s War Against Slavery (New York: Alfred Knopf, 2014).
Leola Nelson Bergman, The Negro in Iowa (Iowa City, IA: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1969).
Tony Horwitz, Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2011).*
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I took several of the photos used myself. The other photos came from a variety of public sources, including the National Parks Service, Library of Congress, West Virginia Archives, Houston Press, and the Iowa Culture website.
*This source was particularly helpful and if anyone is looking for a general history on John Brown's raid I'd recommend reading this first.
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Pocket Bio's E46: John Brown (1800 - 1859)
John Brown was an American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States of America. Brown first gained attention during the Bleeding Kansas crisis of 1856. Brown commanded forces at the Battle of Black Jack and the Battle of Osawatomie. In 1859, Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, to start a liberation movement among the slaves there. He was tried for treason.
Edwin Coppock | Little Histories
edwin coppock doesn't have his own wikipedia page and this is my campaign to give him one thank you for your time
sometimes his name is spelled Coppoc, it seems Coppock is the correct version but what do I know, really
also I couldn't find a place to put this in but Henry Wise, governor of Virginia, noted that of the raiders there were three exemplary, firm, and admirable prisoners: Aaron Stevens, John Brown, and Edwin Coppock. and of the people executed in the raid, Edwin Coppock was the one person a lot of people didn't want to execute because he was so great. so whY DOESN'T HE HAVE HIS OWN WIKIPEDIA PAGE
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Quad City Times:
American Experience: John Brown’s Holy War, produced and directed by Robert Kenner (PBS, 2000)
Albert Marrin, A Volcano Beneath the Snow: John Brown’s War Against Slavery (New York: Alfred Knopf, 2014).
Leola Nelson Bergman, The Negro in Iowa (Iowa City, IA: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1969).
Tony Horwitz, Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2011).*
Statton House History (this also has the full text of Edwin's last letter, which I've pasted down below):
I took several of the photos used myself. The other photos came from a variety of public sources, including the National Parks Service, Library of Congress, West Virginia State Archives, Houston Press, and the Iowa Culture website.
*This source was particularly helpful and if anyone is looking for a general history on John Brown's raid I'd recommend reading this first.
Edwin's last letter, written to his uncle on the 13th of December, 1859 (source listed above):
My Dear Uncle -
I seat myself by the stand to write for the first and last time to thee and thy family. Though far from home and overtaken by misfortune, I have not forgotten you. Your generous hospitality towards me, during my short stay with you last spring, is stamped indelibly upon my heart, and also the generosity bestowed upon my poor brother who now wanders an outcast from his native land. But thank God he is free. I am thankful it is I who have to suffer instead of him.
The time may come when He will remember me. And the time may come when He may still further remember the cause in which I die. Thank God the principles of the cause in which we were engaged will not die with me and my brave comrades. They will spread wider and wider and gather strength with each hour that passes. The voice of truth will echo through our land, bringing conviction to the erring and adding members to that glorious army who will follow its banner. The cause of everlasting truth and justice will go on conquering and to conquer until our broad and beautiful land shall rest beneath the banner of freedom. I had fondly hoped to live to see the principles of the Declaration of Independence fully realized. I had hoped to see the dark stain of slavery blotted from our land, and the libel of our boasted freedom erased, when we can say in truth that our beloved country is the land of the free and the home of the brave; but that cannot be.
I have heard my sentence passed, my doom is sealed. But two more short days remain for me to fulfill my earthly destiny. But two brief days between me and eternity. At the expiration of those two days I shall stand upon the scaffold to take my last look of earthly scenes. But that scaffold has but little dread for me, for I honestly believe that I am innocent of any crime justifying such punishment. But by the taking of my life and the lives of my comrades, Virginia is but hastening on that glorious day, when the slave will rejoice in his freedom. When he can say, I too am a man, and am groaning no more under the yoke of oppression. But I must now close. Accept this short, scrawl as a remembrance of me. Give my love to all the f amily. Kiss little Joey for me. Remember me to all my relatives and friends. And now farewell for the last time.
From thy nephew,
EDWIN COPPOCK
Timeline of United States military operations | Wikipedia audio article
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Timeline of United States military operations
00:00:33 1 Extraterritorial and major domestic deployments
00:00:52 1.1 1775–1799
00:03:29 1.2 1800–1809
00:04:53 1.3 1810–1819
00:09:13 1.4 1820–1829
00:10:43 1.5 1830–1839
00:13:10 1.6 1840–1849
00:15:56 1.7 1850–1859
00:21:11 1.8 1860–1869
00:24:21 1.9 1870–1879
00:26:21 1.10 1880–1889
00:27:54 1.11 1890–1899
00:32:44 1.12 1900–1909
00:36:24 1.13 1910–1919
00:44:36 1.14 1920–1929
00:48:10 1.15 1930–1939
00:49:03 1.16 1940–1944
00:50:41 1.17 1945–1949
00:53:01 1.18 1950–1959
00:56:15 1.19 1960–1969
00:58:50 1.20 1970–1979
01:02:00 1.21 1980–1989
01:12:01 1.22 1990–1999
01:22:28 1.23 2000–2009
01:27:43 1.24 2010–present
01:34:18 2 Battles with the Native Americans
01:34:36 3 Relocation
01:35:09 4 Armed insurrections and slave revolts
01:37:14 5 Range wars
01:38:06 6 Bloody local feuds
01:38:25 7 Bloodless boundary disputes
01:39:13 8 Terrorist, paramilitary groups and guerrilla warfare
01:39:25 8.1 18th and 19th century
01:40:12 9 Labor–management disputes
01:40:47 10 State and national secession attempts
01:41:25 11 Riots and public disorder
01:41:48 12 Miscellaneous
01:43:01 12.1 Latter-day Saints
01:43:16 12.2 Republic of Texas
01:43:33 13 See also
01:43:42 14 Notes
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This timeline of United States government military operations is based on the Committee on International Relations (now known as the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs). Dates show the years in which U.S. government military units participated. Items in bold are the U.S. government wars most often considered to be major conflicts by historians and the general public. Note that instances where the U.S. government gave aid alone, with no military personnel involvement, are excluded, as are Central Intelligence Agency operations.
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The Battle of Ia Drang - fought between November 14th - 18th, 1965 - was the first major battle between the United States Army and the People's Army of Vietnam, also referred to as the North Vietnamese Army.
It was part of the Pleiku Campaign conducted early in the Vietnam War. Both sides claimed victory, and some have said that Ia Drang was the battle that convinced Ho Chi Minh that he could, in the end, defeat the Americans. Three Medals of Honor were awarded from actions during this engagement.
On the morning of November 14th, the 1st Cavalry landed at Landing Zone X-Ray at the base of the Chu Pong mountain and by noon they were already under attack from the North Vietnamese. The fighting continued all day and into the night with the enemy relentlessly making assault after assault.
The North Vietnamese forces had succeeded in engaging the U.S. forces in very tight quarters. The cavalry regiment returned fire, but the enemy were dug into prepared fighting positions and many of the American leaders had died or were wounded during the initial stages of the attack.
Temperatures reached 100 degrees, and by the afternoon there was a firestorm battle for survival. Battalion Commander Lt. Col. Hal Moore and his men continued on, receiving support from artillery units and air strikes, helping the American troops hold themselves against the enemy.
During a 14-hour period, Major Bruce Crandall and Captain Ed Freeman, repeatedly landed their helicopter under intense enemy fire at Landing Zone X-Ray. They resupplied ammunition, water, and supplies, while evacuating the wounded. They saved some 70 soldiers when the Medevac units refused to fly into the intense landing zone. Both later were awarded the Medal of Honor, our nation’s highest award for heroism in combat.
Before the Battle of la Drang was over, 305 Americans had been killed along with an estimated 2,000 North Vietnamese troops. American officials declared the Battle of the la Drang Valley a victory.
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