Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War Hardcover – Bargain Price (45 page)
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“Don’t shoot!”:
Baltimore Clipper,
Oct. 19, 1859.
Baltimore Clipper,
Oct. 19, 1859.
“Oh my dear”:
Richmond Dispatch,
Oct. 29, 1859.
Richmond Dispatch,
Oct. 29, 1859.
“floating upon”:
The Sun
(Baltimore), Oct. 19, 1859.
The Sun
(Baltimore), Oct. 19, 1859.
“Our men” and “dragged him”: Mary Mauzy to daughter, Oct. 17, 1859, HFNHP. See also Joseph Crane to David Strother, Oct. 25, 1859, BSC.
“Be cheerful”: John Kagi to “My Dear Father & Sister,” Sept. 24, 1859, KSHS.
“wept like”: interview with Mrs. C. M. Langston, May 27, 1908, OGV.
“thought that we”: John Copeland to Addison Halbert, Dec. 10, 1859, “The John Brown Letters Found in the Virginia State Library in 1901,”
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
, Oct. 1902, 170.
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
, Oct. 1902, 170.
“So enraged”: Charles White, “John Brown’s Raid at Harpers Ferry: An Eyewitness Account,”
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,
Oct. 1959.
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,
Oct. 1959.
“fighting on my own hook”:
New York Daily Tribune,
Oct. 29, 1859. For the episode of the train official seized by drunken townspeople, see J. Rosengarten, “John Brown’s Raid,” BSC.
New York Daily Tribune,
Oct. 29, 1859. For the episode of the train official seized by drunken townspeople, see J. Rosengarten, “John Brown’s Raid,” BSC.
“The old man”: “Statement of W. W. Throckmorton.”
“greatly excited”: ibid.
“If he keeps”: interview with John Allstadt, OGV.
“That man is down”:
New York Times,
Oct. 26, 1859.
New York Times,
Oct. 26, 1859.
“When Beckham”:
New York Herald,
Oct. 24, 1859.
New York Herald,
Oct. 24, 1859.
“Shoot him!”: ibid.
“covered his face”:
New York Tribune,
Oct. 29, 1859.
New York Tribune,
Oct. 29, 1859.
“nervous chill”: Christine Fouke is quoted from her letter to the
St. Louis
(Missouri)
Republican
, reprinted in the
Baltimore American,
Dec. 6, 1859.
St. Louis
(Missouri)
Republican
, reprinted in the
Baltimore American,
Dec. 6, 1859.
“You may kill me”:
New York Tribune,
Oct. 29, 1859.
New York Tribune,
Oct. 29, 1859.
“Before he fell”: ibid.
“fired and”: ibid.
“probably dying”: ibid.
“we could have ended”:
Baltimore American,
Oct. 24, 1859.
Baltimore American,
Oct. 24, 1859.
“There”: Currie testimony at Cook’s trial, reported in
Baltimore American,
Nov. 11, 1859.
Baltimore American,
Nov. 11, 1859.
“very rapid and continuous”: testimony of Lind Currie, Mason Report, A057.
“I thought”: This and other quotes about Cook’s sniping are from John Cook’s confession.
“It’s all up”:
Baltimore American,
Oct. 31, 1859.
Baltimore American,
Oct. 31, 1859.
“We could not”: Edwin Coppoc letter, Nov. 22, 1859, quoted in Richard Hinton,
John Brown and His Men,
488.
John Brown and His Men,
488.
“he suffered”: ibid.
“spoke no word”: Edwin Coppoc to Mary Brown, Nov. 1859, OGV.
“You can hardly”: Oliver Brown to Martha Brown, Oct. 9, 1859, Houghton Library.
“She had been a wife”: Annie Brown Adams to Alexander Ross, Dec. 18, 1887, Gilder Lehrman Collection.
“She was willing”: Mary Brown to J. M. McKim, March 6, 1860, HLHS.
“Who commands”: Boteler, “Recollections of the John Brown Raid by a Virginian Who Witnessed the Fight,”
Century Magazine
, July 1883, 399–411.
Century Magazine
, July 1883, 399–411.
Terms of surrender: Col. Baylor to Gov. Wise, Oct. 22, 1859,
Governor’s Message and Reports of the Public Officers of the State
(Richmond: William Ritchie, 1859), State Library of Virginia.
Governor’s Message and Reports of the Public Officers of the State
(Richmond: William Ritchie, 1859), State Library of Virginia.
“In consideration”: ibid.
“take him”: testimony of Captain Sinn,
New York Tribune,
Oct. 31, 1859.
New York Tribune,
Oct. 31, 1859.
“that he & his men”: report of Col. Edward Shriver, from “In Readiness to Do Every Duty Assigned,” Gregory Stiverson, ed., in
Archives of Maryland,
Annapolis, 2000.
Archives of Maryland,
Annapolis, 2000.
“He thought he was”:
Baltimore American,
Oct. 31, 1859.
Baltimore American,
Oct. 31, 1859.
“The terms”: Col. Baylor to Gov. Wise, October 22, 1859,
Governor’s Message and Reports.
Governor’s Message and Reports.
“Our troops”: ibid.
“Every man”:
Baltimore American,
Oct. 31, 1859.
Baltimore American,
Oct. 31, 1859.
“If the man”:
New York Tribune,
Oct. 31, 1859.
New York Tribune,
Oct. 31, 1859.
“For the first”:
Shepherdstown
(Virginia)
Register,
Jan. 14, 1860, OGV.
Shepherdstown
(Virginia)
Register,
Jan. 14, 1860, OGV.
“badly scared”:
Baltimore American,
Oct. 29, 1859.
Baltimore American,
Oct. 29, 1859.
“No, my son”: testimony of Terence Byrne, Mason Report, A019.
“to endure a little longer”:
Baltimore Clipper,
Oct. 20, 1859.
Baltimore Clipper,
Oct. 20, 1859.
“treason”:
New York Daily Tribune,
Oct. 31, 1859.
New York Daily Tribune,
Oct. 31, 1859.
“saying he”:
New York Daily Tribune,
Oct. 20, 1859.
New York Daily Tribune,
Oct. 20, 1859.
“extraordinary nerve”:
Baltimore American,
Oct. 19, 1859.
Baltimore American,
Oct. 19, 1859.
Chapter 9: I Am Nearly Disposed of Now
“armed abolitionists”: A. J. Phelps to W. P. Smith, Oct. 17, 1859,
Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection at Harper’s Ferry
, Western Maryland Historical Library.
Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection at Harper’s Ferry
, Western Maryland Historical Library.
“Your dispatch”: ibid., W. P. Smith to A. J. Phelps, Oct. 17, 1859.
“My dispatch”: ibid., A. J. Phelps to W. P. Smith, Oct. 17, 1859.
“Matter”: ibid., W. P. Smith to J. B. Ford, Oct. 17, 1859.
“
His Excellency”
: ibid., J. W. Garrett to James Buchanan, Oct. 17, 1859. On Stuart’s finding Lee buying castor oil, see “Extract from letter of Dr. Roy Bird Cook,” Aug. 16, 1952, HLHS.
His Excellency”
: ibid., J. W. Garrett to James Buchanan, Oct. 17, 1859. On Stuart’s finding Lee buying castor oil, see “Extract from letter of Dr. Roy Bird Cook,” Aug. 16, 1952, HLHS.
“He has left”: Francis Raymond Adams, Jr., “An Annotated Edition of the Personal Letters of Robert E. Lee, April 1855–April, 1861” (Ph.D. thesis, University of Maryland, 1955), 542. For more on the Lee and Custis slaves, see Elizabeth Brown Pryor,
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters
(New York: Viking, 2007), 260–61.
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters
(New York: Viking, 2007), 260–61.
“a wise Merciful”: Robert E. Lee to his wife, December 27, 1856. Available at
http://fair-use.org/robert-e-lee/letter-to-his-wife-on-slavery
.
http://fair-use.org/robert-e-lee/letter-to-his-wife-on-slavery
.
“the scene”: Emory M. Thomas, “‘The Greatest Service I Rendered the State’: J.E.B. Stuart’s Account of the Capture of John Brown,”
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,
July 1986, 352. Stuart’s Jan. 31, 1860, letter about his service at Harpers Ferry is at the Virginia Historical Society. For more on the marines, see Bernard Nalty, “‘At All Times Ready …’: The Marines at Harper’s Ferry” (U.S. Marine Corps, 1959).
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,
July 1986, 352. Stuart’s Jan. 31, 1860, letter about his service at Harpers Ferry is at the Virginia Historical Society. For more on the marines, see Bernard Nalty, “‘At All Times Ready …’: The Marines at Harper’s Ferry” (U.S. Marine Corps, 1959).
“Have given”: W. P. Smith to L. M. Cole, Oct. 18, 1859,
Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection.
Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection.
“party of Banditti”: Lee, quoted in Thomas, “The Greatest Service,” 346.
“the persons”: Colonel Lee’s report, Mason Report, 43–44.
“cautioned”: Thomas, “The Greatest Service,” 353. Also see Colonel Lee’s report, Mason Report, 41.
“The people are terribly excited”: unsigned telegram to Washington, Oct. 18, 1859,
Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection.
Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection.
“All eyes”: Edward White, “Eyewitness at Harpers Ferry,”
American Heritage,
Feb. 1975.
American Heritage,
Feb. 1975.
“opened the door”: Thomas, “The Greatest Service,” 353.
“You are” and the rest of conversation between Stuart and Brown: Boteler, “Recollections of the John Brown Raid,”
Century Magazine,
July 1883, 407.
Century Magazine,
July 1883, 407.
“he could expect” and “would sell”:
New York Herald,
Oct. 24, 1859.
New York Herald,
Oct. 24, 1859.
“Is that your” and “Yes”: Boteler, “Recollections of the John Brown Raid,” 407.
“It was evident”:
New York Herald,
Oct. 24, 1859.
New York Herald,
Oct. 24, 1859.
“reechoed” and “oppressive silence”: Boteler, “Recollections of the John Brown Raid,” 409.
“There was”: testimony of Terence Byrnes, Mason Report, A020.
“One man surrenders!”: ibid.
“When I heard”:
Shepherdstown
(Virginia)
Register,
Jan. 14, 1860, OGV.
Shepherdstown
(Virginia)
Register,
Jan. 14, 1860, OGV.
“cried for quarter”:
New York Tribune,
Oct. 31, 1859.
New York Tribune,
Oct. 31, 1859.
“they picked”: ibid.
“There’s Brown!”: Boteler, “Recollections of the John Brown Raid,” 410.
“Quicker than thought”: Israel Green, “The Capture of John Brown,”
North American Review,
Dec. 1885.
North American Review,
Dec. 1885.
“Instinctively”: ibid. See also Thomas, “The Greatest Service,” which quotes Stuart: “Green complained to me afterwards that his sword was so dull (being a common dress sword) he could not hurt Brown with it.” For more details on the storming, see Israel Green File, OGV. For evidence of shooting, despite Lee’s orders, see testimony of Lewis Washington, Mason Report, A038, and report of Col. Robert Baylor, who wrote that “a heavy volley was fired in by the marines,” in
Governor’s Message and Reports
.
Governor’s Message and Reports
.
“The whole”: Colonel Lee’s report, Mason Report, 42.
“the breathless”: Edward White, “Eyewitness at Harper’s Ferry.”
“I never saw”: W. P. Smith to J. W. Garrett, Oct. 18, 1859,
Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection.
Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection.
“I embraced”:
Shepherdstown
(Virginia)
Register,
Jan. 14, 1860, OGV.
Shepherdstown
(Virginia)
Register,
Jan. 14, 1860, OGV.
“stepped daintily”: Edward White, “Eyewitness at Harper’s Ferry.”
“Colonel Washington”: A.R.H. Ranson, “The John Brown Raid,”
The Sewanee Review,
Oct. 1913.
The Sewanee Review,
Oct. 1913.
“The crowd”:
Baltimore American,
Oct. 19, 1859.
Baltimore American,
Oct. 19, 1859.
“vomiting gore”: Barry,
The Strange Story of Harper’s Ferry,
80. See also notes on J. Graham, OGV, describing Anderson pinned to wall and turning over.
The Strange Story of Harper’s Ferry,
80. See also notes on J. Graham, OGV, describing Anderson pinned to wall and turning over.
“Gentlemen”: Cecil Eby, ed., “The Last Hours of the John Brown Raid: The Narrative of David H. Strother,”
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,
April 1965, 173.
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,
April 1965, 173.
“Well it takes”: Barry,
The Strange Story of Harper’s Ferry,
52.
The Strange Story of Harper’s Ferry,
52.
“Duty, sir”: C. W. Tayleure to John Brown, Jr., June 15, 1879, KSHS.
“feelingly”:
Baltimore Clipper,
Oct. 20, 1859.
Baltimore Clipper,
Oct. 20, 1859.
“Keep up”: Watson Brown to Belle Brown, Oct. 14, 1859, quoted in Sanborn,
The Life and Letters,
549.
The Life and Letters,
549.
“a mere boy”: “The Last Hours of the John Brown Raid,” 173.
“with his hands”: “David Hunter Strother’s Lecture on John Brown in Cleveland, 1868,” West Virginia and Regional History Collection, West Virginia University Libraries.
“gaunt”: ibid.
“The old man’s”: ibid.
“upon”: “Colonel Lee’s report, Mason Report, 45.
“if the wounded”:
New York Herald
, Oct. 21, 1859.
New York Herald
, Oct. 21, 1859.
“the great work”: John Brown to wife and children, Jan. 30, 1858, in Louis Ruchames,
A John Brown Reader,
118.
A John Brown Reader,
118.
“a corpse”: Craig M. Simpson,
A Good Southerner: The Life of Henry A. Wise of Virginia
(Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2001), 20.
A Good Southerner: The Life of Henry A. Wise of Virginia
(Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2001), 20.
“The Governor”: “David Hunter Strother’s Lecture on John Brown in Cleveland, 1868.” There is some confusion about the sequence of interviews in the paymaster’s office. It appears that Wise and Hunter conducted the first, a few hours after Brown’s capture, and may also have been present for the second, longer interview by James Mason and others.
“Old Brown”:
Baltimore American,
Oct. 21, 1859 (citing the
Richmond Enquirer
).
Baltimore American,
Oct. 21, 1859 (citing the
Richmond Enquirer
).
“You are in”: ibid.
“He was singularly free”: Andrew Hunter, “John Brown’s Raid,”
Publications of the Southern History Association,
July 1897, 167.
Publications of the Southern History Association,
July 1897, 167.
“He is the gamest”:
Baltimore American,
Oct. 21, 1859.
Baltimore American,
Oct. 21, 1859.
“He is a bundle”:
Baltimore American,
Oct. 26, 1859.
Baltimore American,
Oct. 26, 1859.
“No sign of weakness”:
Baltimore American,
Oct. 21, 1859.
Baltimore American,
Oct. 21, 1859.
“SEN. MASON—How”: For this and other quotations from the interview, I have drawn on reports in the
New York Herald
and the
Baltimore American
on Oct. 21, 1859. A reporter from the
Cincinnati Gazette
was also present.
New York Herald
and the
Baltimore American
on Oct. 21, 1859. A reporter from the
Cincinnati Gazette
was also present.
“I think you”:
Baltimore American,
Oct. 21, 1859.
Baltimore American,
Oct. 21, 1859.
“I want you to”: ibid.
“You had better”: ibid. Other details and the quotation about the plan of government and the carpetbag are from Andrew Hunter, “John Brown’s Raid.”
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