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Twenty-one men, ages 18 to 44, gathered with “Captain” Brown at his Kennedy Farm headquarters in remote Washington County, Maryland, from mid-June through mid-October 1859. The “army of liberation” included three of Brown’s sons (Owen, Oliver, and Watson); seasoned guerrilla war veterans of “Bleeding Kansas” (more than half the “army’s” total); and five African Americans (two formerly enslaved).