. Highways and byways of the South. of them did not cross the river. Fiveof the remaining nineteen were negroes, and it is acurious fact that while all the whites had been accordedoffices in the provisional government Brown hadplanned, the blacks continued plain citizens andprivates. The raiders took possession of the bridge across thePotomac and of the bridge, close by, that spanned theShenandoah a few rods back from where it joinsthe larger stream. Brown soon was master of thearmory, the arsenal, and the rifle factory, and hadcaptured the watchmen. Then he sent six of his fol-lowers a few mi
. Highways and byways of the South. of them did not cross the river. Fiveof the remaining nineteen were negroes, and it is acurious fact that while all the whites had been accordedoffices in the provisional government Brown hadplanned, the blacks continued plain citizens andprivates. The raiders took possession of the bridge across thePotomac and of the bridge, close by, that spanned theShenandoah a few rods back from where it joinsthe larger stream. Brown soon was master of thearmory, the arsenal, and the rifle factory, and hadcaptured the watchmen. Then he sent six of his fol-lowers a few miles out into the country to bringin certain of the prominent slaveholders with theirslaves. The mission was successfully accomplished,and the slaveholders were imprisoned in the blacks were armed with pikes, but proved entirely 260 Highways and Byways of the South inefficient, and no doubt were a good deal befogged asto what was expected of them, and indeed as to themeaning of the strange events of the night in The Meeting of the Rivers A four-horse farm wagon had been confiscated onthe foray among the plantations, and Brown ordereda detachment to take this wagon to the house that hadbeen his home over in Maryland, and bring a loadof pikes and rifles down to a schoolhouse not far fromthe river on the other side, and there store them. Inthe town itself a train had been held three hours beforeit was allowed to proceed, a negro had been shot byBrowns men, and all citizens who wandered into prox-imity with the invaders were being taken in charge as John Browns Town 261 fast as they came. By daybreak Brown had with Kimin the armory prisoners to the number of forty orfifty. Thus far everything had been done so quietlythat the townspeople had no comprehension of thenature and extent of the trouble, and practically allsave those who had been made prisoners slept on asusual. Even when the negro was shot the town wasnot aroused. How strange a coincidence that the fir
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