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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 4: Exodus. (search)
st in Lynn County. During the absence of Montgomery and Brown, Kagi, who had been left in command, had two or three fights with the invaders. Battle of the Spurs. About the 20th of January, John Brown left Lawrence for Nebraska, with his emancipated slaves, who had been increased in number by the birth of a child at Ossawatomie. It was named, Captain John Brown. When at the third resting place of Jim Lane's army, which had been named Concord, but which subsequent settlers called Holton, a party of thirty proslavery men, who had followed them from Lecompton, approached so near that it was necessary to halt and make a defence. The old man had at this time four white companions and three negro men. The whites were Stevens, Tidd, and Anderson, (who fought at Harper's Ferry,) and another Kansas boy. The Captain took possession of two log cabins in the wood, which the pursuers surrounded — at a distance,--while they sent to Atchison and Lecompton for further aid. From Atchison