Identifier: harpersnew0104various (find matches)
Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: various
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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rd, and had never heard a gun fired, except a squirrel-rifle, think—what could they think about all this? The Harpers Ferry Guards divided into four squads; one crossed the Potomac and came down the Maryland side,and seized the bridge. That was where the Abolitionists reenforcements were looked for. Another squad took possession of the Shenandoah Rifle Works, and a third guarded the railroad bridge above the Musket Factory. Captain Aris, Lieutenant Chambers, Richard Washington(brother of Colonel Lewis, the captive), William Copeland, John Stahl, Jr., JacobBajent, George Coleman, Sr., Ed.McCabe, Mr. Sweeny, Thomas Bird, Mr.Watson, and four others were in the last squad, that headed straight for the Arsenal. There was a scrimmage, and the Harpers Ferry boys ran the Raiders out, killing one of them, Dangerfield Newby, and wounding another, Shields Green. This left Brown only twenty men all told, as it turned out. As we found afterward, his whole army consisted of himself, Captain Oliver Brown,
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The Kennedy Farm-House, showing John Brown in his favorite Spot in the Yard Colonel Lees Marines Breaking into the Engine House Captain Watson Brown (two of his sons),Lieutenant Owen Brown (another son),John E. Cook, John Henry Kagi, William Thomson, Dauphin Thompson, Albert Hazzlet, William H. Leman, Charles Plummer Tidd, Jeremiah G.Anderson, Edwin Coppic, Aaron C.Stevens, Oliver Anderson, Dangerfield Newby, Shields Green, John Copeland, Barclay Coppic, Stewart Taylor, Lewis Geary. Seven of these were members of the Brown family. They had started out to upset the nation, with just sixteen white and six colored men. Of these, eleven whites and six negroes met their death. Now to go back to our Harpers Ferry Guards. Nobody was hurt, apparently, in the retreat from the Arsenal to the Engine House. Brown had his prisoners with him and prepared to fight it out. As it turned out, he had already released all but Colonel Washington and about eight others of the most prominent citizens. These he; took al

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