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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1: Whetting the sword. (search)
for Iowa City, where he was joined by Jason, on h the 5th, who records a meeting with Dr. Bowen, Mrs. Bowen, and Jessie and Eliza Horton. The entries until the 10th record the purchases of wood for spears, staples, chains for mules, and canvas for wagon cover. A horse and buggy was swapped for two horses on the 13th; on the 14th tents and tent poles were carefully packed in the wagons, and additional blankets purchased. July 15, the entry is, The party crossed Iowa River, (Fort des Moines River at Red Rock, from which the autobiography is dated,) stopped at noon on the stream beyond Six Mile House. The entry of Aug. 9 records the arrival of Col. Forbes, (at Tabor,) who from the frequent mention made of that work, the deference which the entries betray for the military judgment of the Colonel, and from the fact of the discovery of several copies of his work among the effects of Old Brown, we suppose to be Hugh Forbes, author of a Manual of the Patriotic Volunteer, the readin