On October 16, 1859, John Brown raided the Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. That day, John Brown led a compact army into a tiny town called Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His idea was to organize a huge slave revolt in the South. He took the arms and ammunition in the federal arsenal and arm slaves, then he started moving towards the Appalachian Mountains to get slaves to be moved with his act. Although his plan was terrible, he strengthened the divide between the North and South. John and his force marched into an unsuspecting Harper’s Ferry and took a hold of the federal complex with very little resistance. The slaves did not support hi raid, but people surrounded him and shot some of the people. The lieutenant came to arrest John Brown,
