Melville said this abolitionist who was hanged in Charlestown, Va. in 1859 was "the meteor of the war"
Historian Dennis Frye describes the reactions of both Southerners and 
Northerners in the wake of abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid on the... [DOC] [TLE] Shadows in the Shenandoah - Mickle Street Review [PAR] Melville's poem The Portent presents readers with a haunted vision of the 
divided American ...