No, far from it. You are giving him too much credit.
The John Brown's war was not a good war it is what sparked the Civil War. This started in the year 1859.
Herman Melville referred to John Brown as the "meteor of the war."
he was on the north
John Brown led raids with abolionists to revlot against salvery. He was a major influnece in the Civil War time, because he used violence to tell how made he was about slavery. John Brown was not an influence at all in the Civil War.
The union- He was an abolitionist.
The main reason for the Civil war was to bring the nation back together.
He died before the civil war so he did not do anything in the war technically.
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It was a precursor to the Civil War. Southern slave holders saw that northern abolitionists were willing to resort to violence to end slavery. This in turn caused them to want to secede out of fear.
John Brown's raid was an act of treason. Very few people saw any value to Brown's attempt to start a slave revolt. It had no effect on the US Civil War. This can be seen if Brown's raid never happened.
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