NOTES 1. Rebecca J. Douglas of Indianapolis, Indiana, is preparing a genealogy of the Coppoc family. She has kindly consented to the use of her notes in the preparation of the preceding and succeeding articles on Edwin and Barclay Coppoc. 2. Oswald Garrison Villard, grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, editor of the Nation and author of John Brown, A Biography Fifty Years After, in the preparation of the latter work collected much material relating to John Brown's men. He kindly loaned this to the writer for use in the preparation of the skecthes of Edwin and Barclay Coppoc. This included (2) papers from the Virginia archives; (6) manuscript extracts from scrapbooks and other papers in the library of the Kansas Historical Society; (10) copies of manuscripts and letters in the possession of the Brown family. This material has been of very great value, as will be seen, in the preparation of these sketches. 3. Irving B. Richman wrote a contribution for the Historical Society of Iowa entitled John Brown Among the Quakers. This was afterwards published in separate form. The references bearing this number are to this interesting contribution. 4. Colonel Richard J. Hinton, in 1894, published his well known work, John Brown and His Men. He was personally acquainted with all of Brown's men and was himself one of them. He had expected to be at Harper's Ferry but the precipitation of the attack there prevented his participation. The writer is under obligations to this work for somewhat copious extracts and frequent references. It is an invaluable source of information on the men who went with John Brown on his foray into Virginia. 5. The references bearing this number are to the Salem (Ohio) Republican, the early files of which are in the public library at Salem, Ohio. Extracts from these files were made by the writer, by the Librarian, Miss Anna P. Cook, and her assistant, Mrs. Blanche C. H. Lease, for whose copy in typewritten form grateful acknowledgment is here made. 6. See (6) in note. 2. 7. This is from the original letter, long in the possession of Sarah Coppock Bailey, daughter of Joshua Coppock. This letter is now, through her kindness, in the possession of the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society. 8. Typewritten copy furnished by Mrs. Samuel Coppock who has kindly given much information to the author in the preparation of these sketches. 9. Cleveland Leader, January, 1860. 10. See (10) in note 2. LOCK OF EDWIN COPPOC'S HAIR. Recently the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society has received from Samuel Coppock, of Winona, Ohio, a lock of the hair of Edwin Coppoc, which is now to be seen with the other mementos in the museum of the Society. LETTER OF EDWIN COPPOC. The letter of Edwin Coppoc to his uncle Joshua is reproduced verbatim with a single exception: in the twelfth line from the top of page 431, between the word "say" and "I" in the original the word "that" occurs. The italicized portions were underscored in the letter. Slight faults in orthography have been corrected. The letter is written in a clear and steady hand. In view of the circumstances under which it was written, it is a remarkable production, as is also the address of Rachael Whinnery at the funeral. THE COFFIN OF EDWIN COPPOCK BY THOMAS C. MENDENHALL There has recently been added to the collection of John Brown relics in the museum of The Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society another concerning which I have been requested to tell the following story: On the morning of the tenth of April, 1865, I left my room which was over the Farmers' National Bank on Main Street, Salem, Ohio, intending to proceed to the High School, in which I was a teacher. But I did not see the inside of a school room that day. Groups of people were forming at every corner and I soon learned that news had been received of the surrender of Lee to General Grant, the long looked-for climax of the Civil War. This event was of far greater importance to the people of the United States than was that of the armistice at the end of the recent European war, and the joy with which it was greeted was far greater than that exhibited on the latter occasion. There were many reasons why the town of Salem, Ohio, should be more jubilant over the end of the struggle than most communities. For many years it had been the center of activity of the anti-slavery forces west of the Allegheny mountains, the headquarters of the Western Anti-Slavery Society, as Boston was of the New England Anti-Slavery Society. Out of it, during many years, had gone the weekly issue of the AntiSlavery Bugle (the organ of The Western Society, as Garrison's Liberator was of that of New England) from which many a powerful and far-reaching "Blast for Freedom" had come. Its town hall had resounded with eloquence of the most famous expounders of the anti-slavery doctrine, including William Lloyd Garrison, Fred Douglas, Wendell Phillips, Parker Pillsbury, Abby Kelley, "Sojourner Truth" (illiterate but inspired negro-slave woman orator) and many others. It was the "Faneuil Hall" of the West. Some of the people of Salem had suffered, some to the extent of being "tarred and feathered", because of their activity in an unpopular cause, and in its cemetery was the tomb of Edwin Coppock, who was one of John Brown's men, hanged at Harper's Ferry, December 16, 1859. The body of this martyr to the anti-slavery cause was sent to the home of his relatives living near New Garden (a few miles south of Salem) and on December 18 it was buried in the cemetery* of that small village, in the presence of as many as two thousand witnesses, including practically the entire population within a radius of a few miles. A few days later a "call" was issued, printed on thin blue paper about eight inches by five inches in dimensions, signed by twenty-four leading citizens of Salem, of which the following is a copy: *This cemetery is now in the village of Winona. FUNERAL EDWIN COPPOCK The friends of Edwin Coppock and of the great principles of freedom for which HE sacrificed his life, and to advance which he suffered martyrdom, being desirous of showing proper respect to his memory have obtained his remains from his relatives, and have made arrangements to inter the body in the cemetery in SALEM, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1859. To meet at the TOWN HALL at I o'clock P. M. All the friends of JUSTICE, LIBERTY and HUMANITY are invited to attend and participate in these solemn rites. R. H. GARRIGUES JACOB HEATON ISAAC TRESCOTT JOHN FAWCETT JOHN HUDSON SAM'L D. HAWLEY In response to this call thousands of visitors from all parts of Northeastern Ohio came to Salem on the day announced and the body of the martyr, after being transferred from the rude coffin in which it had been sent from Harper's Ferry, to a fine metallic casket, was buried in Hope Cemetery where it has since rested beneath a shaft of sandstone on which the only inscription is the name "Edwin Coppock". While enthusiasm over the "end of the war" grew rapidly on the streets of Salem on the morning of April 10th, there was little organization for its expression — |