ismiles from where brown executed, antietam happened. you go to antietam this evening. see for yourself what happened. a legacy. quiten brown, am now certain crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. another legacy was many of these who put on the militia uniform in october, november, december of 1859, and onto january, february of 1860 when all of the executions were completed of other brown men, these men would put the uniform on again, wouldn't that? the guard would become part of virginia, second infantry which would become part of the first virginia brigade which soon to become famous as the stonewall brigade. was supposed to last 90 days. according to the political leaders. many of those boys, many of those men, many of those neighbors, your sons, your brothers, your father's, your didins, your nephews, they not come home. ever. that is what john brown did to us. or did we do something else to was simply a brown reaction to what we had done? when brown was executed, a poem was written, very short, very powerful. by one of america's great