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Image:  John Brown's Grave at North Elba, N.Y. North Elba is in the Adirondacks near Lake Placid.  After his execution, Brown's wife returned his body to the farm for burial. The tombstone (http://www.nyhistory.com/gerritsmith/jbstone.jpg) of Brown's ancestor, also named Capt. John Brown was inscribed with his name, as well as those of his sons who died at Harper's Ferry. Little else was added to the grave site for many years later. In later years the graves of twelve of Brown's men were relocated to the site, a picket fence was erected, and still later the high iron fence that stands at present. The boulder was subsequently (around 1900) inscribed with Brown's name and the years of his birth and death. Plaques were added, memorializing Brown and his men, and the women of the Brown family, for their sacrifices in the cause of freedom.   A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War, by Thomas Fleming (https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Fleming/e/B000APKRYY/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1)         By the time John Brown hung from the gallows for his crimes at Harper's Ferry, Northern abolitionists had made him a “holy martyr” in their campaign against Southern slave owners. This Northern hatred for Southerners long predated their objections to slavery. They were convinced that New England, whose spokesmen had begun the American Revolution, should have been the leader of the new nation. Instead, they had been displaced by Southern “slavocrats” like Thomas Jefferson. This malevolent envy exacerbated the South's greatest fear: a race war. Jefferson's cry, “We are truly to be pitied,” summed up their dread. For decades, extremists in both regions flung insults and threats, creating intractable enmities. By 1861, only a civil war that would kill a million men could save the Union.   https://www.amazon.com/Disease-Public-Mind-Understanding-Fought-ebook/dp/B00B3M3W7M/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1610237539&sr=1-1