November December 2. Left Tabor, parting from Forbes at Nebraska City. 5. Arrived at Whitman's farm near Lawrence. 6. In consultation with Cook. 14-16. At Topeka, with Cook, Realf, Parsons, and Ste vens. 17. Left Topeka. 18. En route to Nebraska City. 22. (About) Arrived at Tabor, Iowa. 1858 January 15. 21. Jan. 28-Feb. 17. Feb. 26-Mar. 3. March 4-7. 8. Left Springdale for East. At Frederick Douglass's in Rochester. With Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Gloucester at Brooklyn. Left Boston for Philadelphia. 9-16. At Philadelphia. 18. At New Haven, Conn. 19. Left New Haven for New York. At North Elba. 2. At Peterboro. 3. Left Peterboro for Rochester. 4-7. At Rochester. 8-12. At St. Catherine's, Canada. 13. In Canada West. 14. At St. Catherine's. 16. At Ingersoll, Canada West. 17-24. In Canada West. 25. Passed through Chicago; arrived in Springdale. 26. At Springdale. 27. Left Springdale at 11.45 A. M. 28. Arrived at Chicago. 29. April 30-May 29. 9. June Reached Detroit and Chatham, Canada. Two conventions met. 29. Left Chatham. 31. Arrived at Boston. 1-3. At Boston. June July August 3. Left Boston for Kansas, via North Elba and Ohio. 5. (About) At North Elba. 20. Left Cleveland with Tidd and Kagi. 26. Reached Lawrence, Kansas. 27-28. At Lawrence. 28. Left Lawrence for southern Kansas. 1. On the Snyder Claim for a four weeks' stay. 23. Ill of ague. 3-9. At Augustus Wattles's home near Moneka, Kansas. 15. (About) Taken to Rev. Mr. Adair's, at Osawatomie, ill of fever. September 23. In Lawrence. October 7. At Ottumwa, Kansas. II. At Osawatomie. 15-16. At Lawrence. 22-25. Oct. 30-Nov. I. December At Osawatomie. At Augustus Wattles's. Building the Montgomery fort during this month. 13. Marched with Montgomery to Paris, Kansas. I. Left Snyder Claim with George Gill for Osawatomie. 2. Attempt of Captain Weaver and Sheriff McDaniel to capture Brown at Snyder Claim; the latter arrived at Osawatomie. 3. At Osawatomie. 5. Returned to Montgomery's fort with George Gill. 6. Drafted agreement presented to peace meeting at Sugar Mound by Montgomery. 16. At Sugar Creek during Montgomery's attack on Fort Scott. 16-18. At Wimsett Farm of Jeremiah G. Anderson's brother. 20. The raid into Missouri. 21. Camped all day in a deep ravine. 22. Reached Augustus Wattles's house. 22-30. At Wattles's or in the neighborhood, ready to repel invasion from Missouri. 30-31. At Wattles's with William Hutchinson. January 1859 I. Went into camp on Turkey Creek. 2. Wrote Montgomery asking him to be ready to fight. January February 3. (About) Visited by George A. Crawford, agent 10-20. At Osawatomie. 20. With George Gill left Garnett, Kansas, for Law- 24. Reached Major J. B. Abbott's, near Lawrence. 29. At Straight or Spring Creek. 30. Resting at Spring Creek. 31. "Battle of the Spurs;" reached Sabetha. 1. Brown's last day in Kansas. Crossed Nemeha River; entered Nebraska. 4. Crossed the Missouri River at Nebraska City. 5-11. At Tabor. II. Left Tabor to cross Iowa. 12. At Toole's. 13. At Lewis Mills's house. 14. At Porter's Tavern, Grove City. 15. At Dalmanutha. 16. At Mr. Murray's, Aurora. 17. At Mr. James J. Jordan's. 18. Passed through Des Moines; at Mr. Hawley's. 19. At Dickerson's. 20. Reached Grinnell. 21-22. At Grinnell. 24. Passed through Iowa City. 25. Arrived at Springdale. Feb. 25-Mar. 9. At Springdale. March April 9. Left Springdale for West Liberty. 10. Left West Liberty by train for Chicago. II. Arrived at Chicago. 12. Arrived at Detroit; saw his slaves ferried over to Windsor. 12-14. At Detroit. 15-24. At Cleveland. 25. In Ashtabula Co., Ohio. 26. At Jefferson, Ohio. 27. Lectured at Jefferson, Ohio. 28. At Cleveland. 7. At Kingsville, Ohio. 10. At Rochester. 11-13. At Peterboro. 14. Left Peterboro for North Elba. 16. At Westport, New York. April 19-May 5. At North Elba. July August September October 4. Reached New York. 5-6. In New York. 7. At Troy. 9. At Keene, New York. 10. At Westport. 16. (Probably) Left North Elba for last time. 18. At West Andover, Ohio. 19. Left West Andover. 23. Akron, Ohio, and Pittsburg, Pa. 23-27. Bedford Springs, Bedford Co., Pa. 27-28. At Chambersburg. 30. Left Chambersburg; spent night at Hagerstown, Md. 3. At Sandy Hook, Md. (Harper's Ferry). 12. (About) Moved to Kennedy Farm. 16-21. At Chambersburg with Frederick Douglass. 30. On his way back through Harrisburg. 1. At Chambersburg. 8. At Chambersburg. 16. (Sunday) Raid began. 17. In battle at Harper's Ferry. 18. Captured at daybreak. 19. Taken to Charlestown jail. John Brown's band consisted of twenty-one men besides himself, sixteen of whom were white and five colored. Most of the whites he commissioned as officers in his army; according to the best obtainable printed list, Stevens, Cook, Brown's three sons, — Oliver, Owen and Watson, and Tidd were captains. But this is incomplete. There is conflicting testimony as to whether Hazlett was a captain or a lieutenant. Cook states that only two lieutenants were commissioned, Edwin Coppoc and Dauphin Thompson. Colonel Lee in his official report rates Hazlett, Edwin Coppoc, and Leeman as lieutenants. A captain's commission was found on Leeman's body. Probably William Thompson and J. G. Anderson were also captains. The white private soldiers were Stewart Taylor, Barclay Coppoc, and F. J. Meriam. The colored were Shields Green, Lewis Sheridan Leary, John A. Copeland, Jr., Osborn Perry Anderson, and Dangerfield Newby. The eldest of the band after Brown was Newby, aged forty-four; Owen Brown came next, at thirty-five; all the others were under thirty. Oliver Brown, Barclay Coppoc, and Leeman were not yet twenty-one. The average age of the twentyone followers was twenty-five years and five months. Only one was of foreign birth; nearly all were of old American stock. Sketches of their lives follow. John Henry Kagi was the best educated of all the raiders, but was largely self-taught. Many admirably written letters survive as the productions of his pen, in the New York Tribune, the New York Evening Post, and the National Era. He was, moreover, an able man of business, besides being an excellent debater and speaker. He was an expert stenographer and a total abstainer. His father was the respected village blacksmith in Bristolville, Ohio, whose family was of Swiss descent, the name being originally Kägy. John A. Kagi was born at Bristolville, March 15, 1835; and was killed October 17, 1859. In 1854-55 he taught school at Hawkinstown, Virginia, where he obtained a personal knowledge of slavery. This resulted in such abolition manifestations on his part, that he was compelled to leave for Ohio under a pledge never to return to Hawkinstown. Kagi then went to Nebraska City, Nebraska, where he was admitted to the bar. He next entered Kansas with one of General James H. Lane's parties. He enlisted in A. D. Stevens's ("Colonel Whipple's") Second Kansas Militia, and was captured in 1856 by United States troops. Kagi was imprisoned first at Lecompton and then at Tecumseh, but was finally liberated. He was assaulted and severely injured by Judge Elmore, the pro-slavery judge, who struck him over the head with a gold-headed cane, on January 31, 1857. Kagi drew his revolver and shot the Judge in the groin. Elmore then fired three times and shot Kagi over the heart, the bullet being stopped by a memorandum-book. Kagi was long in recovering from his wounds. After a visit to his Ohio home he returned to Kansas and joined John Brown. When in Chambersburg as agent for the raiders, he boarded with Mrs. Mary Rittner. VA Aaron Dwight Stevens, in many ways the most interesting and attractive of the personalities gathered around him by John Brown, ran away from home at the age of sixteen, in 1847, and enlisted in a Massachusetts volunteer regiment, in which he served in Mexico during the Mexican War. Later, he enlisted in Company F of the First United States Dragoons, and was tried for "mutiny, engaging in a drunken riot, and assaulting Major George A. H. Blake of his regiment," at Taos, New Mexico, in May, 1855. Stevens was sen |