Road to Harpers Ferry.

1960 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Clifford Dowdey ◽  
J. C. Furnas
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2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Southworth ◽  
D.K. Brezinski ◽  
Randall C. Orndorff ◽  
Kerry M. Lagueux ◽  
Peter G. Chirico
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Author(s):  
Jason Phillips

Focusing on Edmund Ruffin, this chapter interprets the prophecies of secessionists. During a national craze for John Brown relics after the Harpers Ferry raid, Edmund Ruffin circulated Brown’s pikes to each southern legislature or governor to promote southern nationalism and secession. This chapter inverts memory studies to interpret how antebellum novels by Ruffin, John B. Jones, and Beverley Tucker forecasted civil war and elevated white supremacy. The prophetic imagination of secessionists like Ruffin empowered masters at the expense of women, yeomen, and slaves. By identifying themselves as conservative prophets rebelling against modern transgressions of timeless laws, southern nationalists adopted a historical consciousness that predicted a looming revolution to restore order and harmony. Their prophecies imagined bloodshed and destruction that exceeded the actual war and echoed earlier revolutions, particularly the American, French, and Haitian.


Vulcan ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
Steven G. Collins

This article examines the role of James Burton in the diffusion of military technology in the mid-19th century. Burton worked as the Master Armorer at the Harpers Ferry Armory, as a contractor in the Connecticut Valley, and as an engineer at the Enfield Armory. At each location he incorporated the latest ideas of the American System of Manufacturing. Not only did he transmit new ideas, he visited, studied, and learned from his international peers. When the American Civil War began, he joined the Confederate Ordnance Department and helped the South continue a long and destructive war. The new technological ideas—bred out of necessity of war—continued to help shape the creation of a New South. After the war, Burton influenced weapons manufacturing in Russia, Italy, Turkey, and Egypt. The ideas that Burton helped implement is a case study of international technological diffusion.


1978 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Clark C. Spence ◽  
Merritt Roe Smith
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Author(s):  
Douglas G. Patchen ◽  
Katharine Lee A vary
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1978 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Edward C. Ezell ◽  
Merritt Roe Smith
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