All through this education, the Civil War was not far from my mind, for which I have maintained a continuing interest.  We made day trips to Gettysburg, Antietam, and Harpers Ferry.  The latter may be best known for the John Brown raid of 1859 (Harpers Ferry was in the state of Virginia at the time), but it is remembered as well as one of two Federal arsenals (the other in Springfield Massachusetts) that manufactured rifled muskets, using ...