What kind of locomotive was it that Brown took hostage? How many cars were on the train?

What was the light on the front of the locomotive made of?

What were the lights on the bridge?

where were the horses for the arsenal and the fire engine kept?

How much did the spectre of John L. Brown and the Brown trial loom over Harper's Ferry and John Brown?

Did the American potato blight of 1843 affect Harper's Ferry?

How Catholic was the town? Were the slaves Catholic?

Were there Freemasons in the city? Where did they meet?

What kind of carriage and what kind of wagon were taken from the Washington house? How many horses did they have?

Was Colonel Washington part of General Washington's famous mule-breeding tradition?

How many horses did Brown take hostage?

Where was the Kennedy boarding house? Not the Kennedy farm, the Kennedy boarding house in Bolivar where Cook was staying.

Was there a library in town then?

Were the weapons in the Maryland schoolhouse the pikes he brought or the guns from the arsenal?

Was it Leary or Merriam who went to Washington's?

Was Green actually part of the Zouave movement?

Who shot Fontaine Beckham?

Would there have been jack-o-lanterns or other harvest symbols around?

Things you would think I would have found definitive answers about, but have not:

How many slaves joined in at the peak of the raid?

How many people died?

What was the population of Harper's Ferry and Bolivar?

What was the weather like on October 16th, and in the weeks leading up to October 16th?

Is Osborne Anderson's account of the raid considered definitive or questionable?

Thank you so much for perusing these questions, I doubt I'll find answers for all of them but even a few crossed off the list helps me. The last question I asked here was answered very patiently and adroitly, and I sincerely appreciate it.