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Actually, John Brown was one of the catalysts that STARTED the war. He led a small company of men, slaves, freemen and his sons to capture the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry Virginia. Col. Robert E. Lee and a company of soldiers captured him. He was eventually hanged.

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