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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown 1,857 43 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 250 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 242 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 138 2 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 129 1 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 126 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 116 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 116 6 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 114 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 89 3 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 25 (search)
the Wisconsin corpse, took possession of the grave, and buried their own inanimate jayhawker therein. I call that the gravest offence, in its way, on record. Mr. Brown, who had a lumber-yard in Natchez, and a beautiful residence under the hill, was a good deal astonished the other day by the rigors of war. The Federal Quartermaster sent down a detail with wagons to draw away some of this lumber. Mr. Brown fancied they came as purchasers. Some of this, Captain, is worth thirty dollars a thousand, some fifty dollars. Well, said the officer, I guess I'll take some of the fifty-dollar sort. Load on, boys. But, said Brown, it should be measured firis worth thirty dollars a thousand, some fifty dollars. Well, said the officer, I guess I'll take some of the fifty-dollar sort. Load on, boys. But, said Brown, it should be measured first. And at this instant it dawned upon the mind of the man of boards that perhaps Uncle Sam, the offended one, was seizing the lumber!
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 69 (search)
General Lee and old John Brown.--A letter to the Pittsburgh Chronicle, from Harper's Ferry, contains the following: nels, and generals, who had assembled in the vicinity of John Brown's stronghold, not knowing the force that he really had, hem, to the front of the building fortified and occupied by Brown. The lookers — on viewed this soldierly movement with astorender. He knocked at the door of the engine-house, and John Brown asked: Who goes there? Lieut. Green, United States Marinel Lee, demands an immediate surrender. I refuse it, said Brown, unless I, with my men, am allowed to cross the bridge intow his demand for immediate and unconditional surrender. John Brown refused these terms, and four of the marines; who had goll back. Colonel Lee and the marines jumped in--one man John Brown shot through the heart — and then was overpowered and sulonel Washington, with other citizens, was released, and John Brown handed over to the civil authorities, after which Colone