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Title: The life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Brown of Ossawatomie" : with a full account of the attempted insurrection at Harper's Ferry : compiled from official and authentic sources, including Cooke's confession, and all the incidents of the execution
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: De Witt, R. M. (Robert M.), 1827-1877, publisher Virginia. Circuit Court (Jefferson Co.)
Subjects: Brown, John, 1800-1859 Brown, John, 1800-1859 Cook, John E. (John Edwin), 1830-1859 Trials (Murder) Trials (Treason) Slave insurrections Abolitionists
Publisher: New York : R.M. DeWitt
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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John Brown, from a Thotograph by Martin M. Lawrence, S81 Broadway
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THE HARPERS EERRY INSURRECTION. 14 ifhole force of their assailants marched upon the prairie before them. With hisasual indomitable courage and unhesitating confidence in himself, he gave no thoughtto the odds of ten to one, or to making his escape from the danger, nor did he waitfor the enemy to commence the fight, but carefully disposing his men, he opened arapid and constant fire, which was returned, of course, but. the Missourians, notknowing his numbers, and fearing an ambuscade, would not venture into the woods,and their artillery did little harm to men lying on the ground and loading theirrifles at the breech. The result was, that sixty or seventy of the Missourians werekilled or wounded ; two of Browns men were killed, and the others he carried oflfin safety through the timber, up the river and across the ford. Shortly after the Marais des Cygnes massacre, Brown conceived the idea of car-rying the war into Africa, and teaching the fighters on the other side of the bor-der that

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