Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . rd, and had never heard agun fired, except a squirrel-rifle, think—what could they think about all this? The Harpers Ferry Guards dividedinto four squads; one crossed the Poto-mac and came down the Maryland side,and seized the bridge. That was wherethe Abolitionists re-enforcements werelooked for. Another squad took posses-sion of the Shenandoah Rifle Works, anda third guarded the railroad bridge abovethe Musket Factory. Captain Aris, Lieu-tenant Chambers, Richard Washington(brother of Colonel Lewis, the captive),William Cope
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . rd, and had never heard agun fired, except a squirrel-rifle, think—what could they think about all this? The Harpers Ferry Guards dividedinto four squads; one crossed the Poto-mac and came down the Maryland side,and seized the bridge. That was wherethe Abolitionists re-enforcements werelooked for. Another squad took posses-sion of the Shenandoah Rifle Works, anda third guarded the railroad bridge abovethe Musket Factory. Captain Aris, Lieu-tenant Chambers, Richard Washington(brother of Colonel Lewis, the captive),William Copeland, John Stahl, Jr., JacobBajent, George Coleman, Sr., , Mr. Sweeny, Thomas Bird, , and four others were in the lastsquad, that headed straight for the Ar-senal. There was a scrimmage, and theHarpers Ferry boys ran the Raidersout, killing one of them, DangerfieldNewby, and wounding another, ShieldsGreen. This left Brown only twentymen all told, as it turned out. As wefound afterward, his whole army con-sisted of himself, Captain Oliver Brown,. 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, Wil-liam Thomson, Dauphin Thompson, Al-bert Hazzlet, William H. Leman,Charles Plummer Tidd, Jeremiah , Edwin Coppic, Aaron , Oliver Anderson, DangerfieldNewby, Shields Green, John Copeland,Barclay Coppic, Stewart Taylor, LewisGeary. Seven of these were members ofthe Brown family. They had started out to upset thenation, with just sixteen white and sixcolored men. Of these, eleven whites andsix negroes met their death. Now to go back to our Harpers FerryGuards. Nobody was hurt, apparently, in the re-treat from the Arsenal to the EngineHouse. Brown had his prisoners withhim and prepared to fight it out. As itturned out, he had already released allbut Colonel Washington a
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