[Proverbs 3-5]

http://scriptures.lds.org/dc/130/12#12 Prophesy made in 1843

I didn't know Harpers Ferry was in South Carolina: On October 16, 1859, the radical abolitionist John Brown led a group of 21 men in a raid on the Arsenal...John Brown's men were quickly pinned down by local citizens and militia, and forced to take refuge in the engine house adjacent to the armory...The Secretary of War asked for the assistance of the Navy Department for a unit of United States Marines, the nearest troops. [6] Lieutenant Israel Greene was ordered to take a force of 86 Marines to the town. In need of an officer to lead the expedition, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee was found on leave nearby and was assigned as commander along with Lieutenant J. E. B. Stuart as his aide-de-camp. The whole contingent arrived by train on October 18, and after negotiation failed, they stormed the fire house and captured most of the raiders, killing a few and suffering a single casualty themselves. Brown was tried for treason against the state of Virginia, convicted, and hanged in nearby Charles Town. Starry's testimony was integral to his conviction. Following the prosecution (by Andrew Hunter), "John Brown captured the attention of the nation like no other abolitionist or slave owner before or since." The Marines returned to their barracks and Colonel Lee returned to finish his leave. The raid was a catalyst for the Civil War...

[dangus]

In fairness, what does John Brown have to do with anything? He wasn’t an agent of the union. IN fact, the union saw to it that he was defeated and hanged.

As much as silly confederate-wannabes make out of John Brown, the beginning of the Civil War was when the South attacked a union outpost, despite the retreat of the union forces from several positions to that one outpost.