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  • A family takes pictures of themselves with yesterday's sunset from an overlook along skyline drive in Shenandoah national park.
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  • The town of Luray glows in the distance as passing cars light up the trees lining skyline drive in Shenandoah national park.
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  • The sun rises over Shenandoah National Park, as seen from the Mt. Marshall Overlook along Skyline Drive.
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  • Autumn in Shenandoah National Park, as seen from Skyline Drive.
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  • The Milky Way Galaxy hangs in the early morning sky over a copse of trees at Big Meadows in Shenandoah National Park on April 22, 2015
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  • The Blue Ridge Mountains are shrouded in fog in the late evening. Shenandoah National Park, as seen from along Skyline Drive.
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  • Moonlit night over Skyline Drive. Shenandoah National Park. Virginia
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  • An autumn tinged chestnut tree is illuminated by headlights under a starry sky in the early morning hours of Saturday, October 18, 2014 in Shenandoah National Park. Taking a night drive along the famed road inside the park Skyline Drive is a good way to beat the normal crowd and enjoy a pristine sunrise.
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  • Stars shine above a copse of trees as the sun rises beneath a crescent moon on the other side of the horizon. Big Meadows, Shenandoah National Park.
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  • The sun rises over a copse of trees at Big Meadows in Shenandoah National Park.
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  • The sun rises over Shenandoah National Park, as seen from Big Meadows along Skyline Drive.
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  • The sun begins to rise over Shenandoah National Park, as seen from Big Meadows along Skyline Drive.
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  • A crescent moon sets as the sun begins to rise on the horizon  over a copse of trees at Big Meadows in Shenandoah National Park.
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  • A car drives through Marys Rock Tunnel along Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park in wintertime.
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  • The stone piers on the left are what remains of the original B&O Railroad bridge which was burned in 1861 by Confederates before marching South to converge with other rebel units to defend an important railroad junction from Union capture. The battle of Bull Run (as it was called by the Union, Manassas by the Confederacy; Union battles were typically named after rivers and tributaries, whereas Confederates named them after nearby towns and railroads) would be the first major battle of the Civil War.
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  • A crescent moon is seen in the early morning sky at dawn, as seen from Big Meadows along Skyline Drive.
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  • The historic town of Harpers Ferry is illuminated from a full moon above; as seen from the edge of Maryland Heights.<br />
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On the night of October 16th, 1859 a party of 17 armed men led by the militant abolitionist John Brown crossed the Potomac River over the B&O railroad bridge (the piers of which can be seen below at left) to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry and its stockpile of 100,000 rifles and muskets. With these weapons, Brown intended to facilitate an armed slave uprising that would spread throughout the entire South. <br />
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While his raid failed, the news of John Brown's attempt was an earthquake that reverberated throughout the entire Union and split the fault line between North and South. denounced as a psychotic terrorist by Southerners, Brown was embraced by many Northern abolitionists as a martyr. This outpouring of support for Brown exasperated Southern suspicions of a yankee-abolitionist plot to subjugate the South under Northern control through emancipation; by force if necessary. Southern states, long fearful of slave revolts, revived the militia system to combat all future "John Browns" laying the foundation for what would become the Confederate Army. <br />
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On the morning of his execution, John Brown handed a note to one of his guards that would become prophetic: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood..." 16 months later, Confederate batteries in Charleston would open fire on Fort Sumter, and the bloody purge would begin.
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  • at Shenandoah Family camp in Culloden, W.V. on Thursday, August 02, 2018.
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