“In the heated atmosphere after the Lincoln assassination, quite a few northerners compared Lee to the infamous John Brown, the abolitionist who was captured, tried, and hanged for the Harper's Ferry raid in 1859. Brown had been found guilty of treason against the state of Virginia after a jury deliberated for only forty-five minutes...Coincidentally, it had been Colonel Robert E. Lee of the US Army that eventually put down John Brown's short-lived rebellion at Harper's Ferry.” Robert E LeeJohn BrownHarper S Ferry Book:The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon Source: The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon