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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 9: battle of Ossawatomie. (search)
ern invaders from all their inland strongholds. Let us follow John Brown during this eventful period. From the 4th of July till the 30th of August, he was neither idle nor inactive. With a wounded son-in-law, who had been shot at the battle of Black Jack, he left Topeka about the end of July; and, on the 5th of August, entered the camp of the organized Northern companies, then known as Jim Lane's army, at a place four miles from the northern boundary line, which the emigrants had named Plymouth, in honor of the Puritans,--who had crossed the sea for the same purpose that they were now crossing the prairie: To make the West as they the East, The Homestead of the Free. A brother of John Brown's wounded son-in-law, on learning of the casualties of Black Jack, at once left North Elba, and joined the second Massachusetts Company at Buffalo. The old man rode into camp, and inquired if Wm. Thompson He fell at Harper's Ferry. was there. He found him, and they left the camp t
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 11: return to the East. (search)
he prairie, thus named by the Massachusetts companies. Passing them, and travelling twelve miles farther, I found, lying sick in bed, at the solitary log hut at Plymouth, the venerable hero of Ossawatomie and Lawrence. My companion was a physician, who at once prescribed remedies for his fever. I urged the old man to move on, as the troops were approaching, not knowing that he had recently encamped with them. I told him that they intended to remain at Plymouth until the train should arrive there; and that, as many of the people here knew his name, he might, without intentional treachery, be discovered and arrested. He thanked me for the advice, and prtion of the character of Old Brown. Our new acquaintance suddenly pretended to be sick, and as he was, withal, rather a bore to us, we advised him to return to Plymouth. He seemed to follow our advice, but rode back to the dragoons, who had encamped for the night, and informed them where Old Brown lay sick. A detachment of the