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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 8: sword in hand. (search)
wn and his sons Oliver and Watson, Stevens and two others, were stationed inside of the Armory grounds; Kagi, with Leeman, Stewart Taylor, Anderson, (black,) and Copeland, (colored,) held the lower part of the town and the rifle works; Cook, Owen Brown, Tidd, Merriam, and Barclay Coppoc were stationed at the cabins of the Kennedy conflict, until the corpse of Kagi, riddled with balls, floated down the river, followed by one of his faithful black comrades, and Leary lay mortally wounded. Copeland, the unwounded survivor, seeing that the fight was over, yielded himself a prisoner, and, with Leary, who lingered twelve hours in agony, was taken to the town amely gloomy. In the rivers floated the corpses of Kagi, Leeman, Stewart Taylor, and Win. Thompson. Imprisoned, and near to death, lay Lewis Leary and Stevens. Copeland was a captive. On the street lay the dead bodies of Hazlitt and Newby. In the engine house were the remains of Oliver Brown, and Dauphin Thompson; while Watso
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 9: fallen among thieves. (search)
g thus to escape notice and detection; but, perceived by Colonel Washington, he was hauled forth to meet his doom. Lieutenant Green, as soon as he saw John Brown, although he was unarmed, (according to the testimony of a Virginian,) struck him in the face with his sabre, which instantly knocked him down. Not content with this brutality, the Lieutenant repeated the blow several times, and then another soldier ran a bayonet twice into the prostrate body of the old man. In the trial of Copeland, the following dialogue occurred: Mr. Sennott. You say that when Brown was down you struck him in the face with your sabre? Lieut. Green. Yes, sir. Mr. Sennott. This was after he was down? Lieut. Green. Yes, sir, he was down. Mr. Sennott. How many times, Lieut. Green, did you strike Brown in the face after he was down? Lieut. Green. Why, sir, he was defending himself with his gun. Mr Hunter. I hope the counsel for the defence will not press such questions as these.
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, chapter 2.44 (search)
XII. lodged in jail. After a public exhibition of more than thirty hours, as they lay unattended and bloody on the floor of the guard house, interrogated by unmanly politicians and insulted by the brutal mob, the surviving Liberators, on Wednesday evening, October 19, were conveyed to the jail of Charlestown, under an escort of marines. A United States Marshal from Ohio, after the political inquisitors had finished with the whites, endeavored to extort from the negroes, Copeland and Green, confessions to criminate the friends of freedom in his native State. He succeeded in procuring no confession whatever, but only a few brief answers to leading questions, which served to show at once his political purpose and his depravity of heart. A Virginia journalist thus describes the journey to Charlestown : On Wednesday evening they were conveyed to the jail of Jefferson County, under an escort of marines. Stevens and Brown had to be taken in a wagon, but the negro Green an
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 2: Judicial alacrity. (search)
esent that John Brown, Aaron C. Stephens. alias Aaron D. Stephens and Edwin Coppic, white men, and Shields Green and John Copeland, free negroes, together with divers other evil-minded and traitorous persons to the Jurors unknown, not having the feStephens alias Aaron D. Stephens, as Captain; the said Edwin Coppic, as Lieutenant, and the said Shields Green and John Copeland as soldiers ; and did then and there require and compel obedience to said officers; and then and there did hold and profurther present that the said John Brown, Aaron C. Stephens, alias Aaron D. Stephens, Edwin Coppic, Shields Green, and John Copeland, severally, on the sixteenth, seventeeth, and eighteenth days of October, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred anurther present that the said John Brown, Aaron C. Stephens, alias Aaron D. Stephens, Edwin Coppic, Shields Green, and John Copeland. severally, on the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth days of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eigh
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 9: forty days in chains. (search)
racts every one who approaches him, and while he talks he reigns. The other prisoners venerate him. Stevens sits in his bed, usually with his face away from the window, and listens all day to the Captain's words, seldom offering a syllable except when called upon. Sometimes he gets a little excited, and springs forward to make clear some point about which I the Captaina is in doubt; but his five bullets, in head and breast, weigh him down, and he is soon exhausted. As for the other men,--Copeland, Green, and Coppic,they are always sending messages to the Captain, assuring him that it was not they who confessed, and he mustn't growl at them, but at Cook. I cannot forget hearing Brown express himself on the subject of the threatening anonymous letters that have been received by (Gov. Wise relating to his case. Well, gentlemen, he said, I tell you what I think of them. They come from no friends of mine. I have nothing to do with such friends. Why, gentlemen, of all the things in
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 11: the victory over death. (search)
y invasion, had kept them at home to watch the movements of their slaves. In jail. John Brown rose at daybreak, resumed his correspondence with undiminished energy, and continued to write till half past 10 o'clock, when the Sheriff, Jailer, and assistants entered, and told him that he must prepare to die. The Sheriff bade him farewell in his cell. The old man quietly thanked him for his kindness, and spoke of Captain Avis, his jailer, as a brave man. He was then led to the cell of Copeland and Green. This interview is thus reported: He told them to stand up like men, and not betray their friends. He then handed them a quarter of a dollar each, saying he had no more use for money, and bade them adieu. He then visited Cook and Coppoc, who were chained together, and remarked to Cook: You have made false statements. Cook asked: What do you mean? Brown answered: Why, by stating that I sent you to Harper's Ferry. Cook replied: Did you not tell me in Pittsburg