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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Jackson at Harper's Ferry in 1861 . (search)
Charlestown,
A town in West Virginia, where on Dec. 2, 1859, John Brown was hung, and on the 16th, Green, Copeland, Cook, and Coppoc, and on March 16, 1860, Stephens and Hazlett.
See Brown, John.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 1 : the child and his ancestors. (search)
Chapter 1: the child and his ancestors. December 2, 1859.
How, worthily, write the Life of worthy John Brown?
The task is as difficult as the man was heroic.
In every part and phase of it, numerous and serious obstacles present themselves.
For to-day John Brown was ranged by a semi-barbarous Commonwealth, as a traitor, murderer, and robber, and fifteen despotic States are rejoicing at his death; while, in the free North, every noble heart is sighing at his fate, or admiring his devotion to the principles of justice, or cursing the executioners of their warrior-saint.
Thus opposite are the views men have of him; and this is the first difficulty that confronts his biographer.
But putting it aside, by utterly disregarding the opinions and denunciations of the mob, looking steadily at the old man only, and drawing him as he strove to be and was,--a warrior of the Lord and of Gideon: to satisfy the public expectation, and, at the same time, to do justice to the hero of their he