{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2969", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "-JC sXtv^ O\\n^ot.\\ns\\no.\\n^-iq\\nr\u00c2\u00ab", "height": "2969", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "0* .1. *o, ^4 ^0^\\n.0\\n-V\\nV *L\\n*o\\nbv\\n^^0^ :c\\n*o\\\\^\\n**Tr,-^* .0-", "height": "2969", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2969", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "THE\\nANNALS\\nor\\nHARPER S FERRY,\\nFROM\\nTHE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL ARMORY IN\\n1794, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1869.\\nWith Anecdotes of Harpers-Feirians,\\nBY\\nJOSEPHUS, Jr.\\nHAGERSTOWN, MD.\\nDECHERT CO., Printers.\\n1869.", "height": "2969", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "Entered according to the Act of Congress in the yetjr 1869, by Joseph Barrt,\\nin the Clerk s Office of the the United States District Court for the State of Mary-\\nland.", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "r R b] h A K\\nThis little volume has been wi-itten it the solicitation of many Mends.\\nLike its author, it has few pretensions to style, and if it gets credit for\\ntruth the writer will be satisfied, as thnt is moie than mmy histories now-a-\\ndays receive or deserve. The oliject of its puhlicHtion is neither fame nor\\nprofit; for fond as the author mny i)e of tlie firstborn of his pen. he is not\\nso blinded by parental affection us not to i-ee that it deserves neither. It was\\nwritten for arauseniezit, and it is hoped, ihat with all its faults it may, to\\nsome extent, answer the same purpo.-e wi:li its readers.\\nIt may, however, be very useful as a bouk of referi nee, and in thk respect\\nthe author claims credit for his voliune. I b; received his information respect-\\ning all the Superintendents u[) to Mr Cl we from tlie most reliable sources.\\nFrom the commencement of that gentlem^m s administration the author saw\\nfor himself.\\nIf then, this little volume should give Muiuscment cr profitable information\\nthe author will be much pleased, and at all events hi feels himself happy in\\nthe thought that while he mai/ hn i/KiMiied he cannot he disappointed.\\nTHE A.UTHOR.\\nEar pel s Ferry, March Sth, ISCA).", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF HARPER^S FERRY.\\nCHAPTER L\\nITS iisrap.A.2sro^sr.\\nHarper s Ferry, including Bolivar, is a town which before the\\nwar contained a population of three thousand, nine-tenths of\\nwhom were whites. At the breaking out of the war nearly all\\nthe inhabitants left their homes, some casting their lots with the\\nConfederacy and about an equal number with the old Govern-\\nment. On the restoration of peace comparatively few i-eturned.\\nMany colored people, however, who came at various times with\\nthe arnay from Southern Virginia have remained, so that the\\nproportion of races is materially changed. The present popula-\\ntion may be set down at sixteen hundred whites and four hun-\\ndred blacks.\\nThe town is situated in Jefferson county, West Virginia, at\\nthe confluence of the Potomac and Slienandoah, at the base and\\nin the very shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Balti-\\nmore and Ohio Rail Road crosses the Potomac at this place on a\\nmagnificent bridge, and the Winchester and Potomac Rail Road\\nhas its northern terminus in the town. The Chesapeake and\\nOhio Canal also is in the immediate neighborhood.\\nThe scenery around the pla(!e has long been celebrated for its\\ngrandeur, and Jefferson has immortalized it in a beautiful des-\\ncription said to have been written on a remarkable rock that\\ncommands a magnificent view of both rivers and their junction.\\nThe rock itself is a wonderful freak of nature and is regarded\\nwith veneration l)y the inhabitants not only for this, but for a\\ntradition among them that, seated on it, Jefferson wrote his\\nI^otes on Virginia. It is, therefore, called Jefferson s Rock.\\nOn one side of the town the Maryland Heights and on the\\nother the Loudoun Heights frown majestically, and imagination\\nmight easily picture them as guardian giants defending the por-\\ntals of the noble Valley of Virginia. Between these two ram-\\nparts, in a gorge of savage grandeur the lordly Potomac takes to", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "AW NALS OV ilAEl KK s FERRY.\\nIlls embrace the beautiful Sheiiandoali. Tliis is the scenery of\\nwhich Jefferson said tliat a si2;ht of it was \\\\vorth a voyage across\\nthe Atlantic, and no person with the least poetry in liis soul will\\nconsider his assertion extravagant. It is snpposed by many that\\nthe whole Valley of A ii;o-inia wa^^ at one time a vast sea, and\\nthat during some convnlsion of natui e the imprisoned waters\\nfound an outlet at this place. Be this as it may, it is a scene of\\nawful sublimity and well desei veft the many panegyrics it lias\\nreceived from orator and poet.\\nIn 1794, during the administration of General Washington, it\\nwas chosen as the site of a National Armoiy. It is said that the\\nGreat Father of his country himself suggested it as the location,\\nhaving visited the place in person. This is a tradition of the\\nplace, and if it be true, it is characteristic of the most sagacious\\nof men. The water power is immense, some people supposing it\\nto be the iinest in the world. The Valley of Virginia and that\\nof Middietown, as well as the fertile plains of Loudoun, gave\\npromise of an abundance of the necessaries of life, and perhaps\\nwith the eye of pi-ophecy he saw Rail Eoads penetrating the\\nbowels of the Alleghanies, and transporting their then hidden\\nmineral treasures to aid in the jtroposed manufacture. In the\\nyear above mentioned Congress applied to the General Assembly\\nof Vii-ginia for permission to pui chase the site, and by a vote of\\nthe latter permission was granted to pui chase a tract not exceed-\\ning six hundred and forty acres. Accordingly a body of land\\ncontaining one hundred and twenty-five acres was purchased\\nfrom the heirs of Mr. Harper, a former proprietor, from whom\\nthe place takes its name. This tract is contained in a triangle\\nformed by the two rivers and a line running from river to river\\nalong what is called Union Street. Another purchase was\\nmade of three hundred and ten acres from a Mr. Rutherford.\\nThis tract is that on which the village of Bolivar now stands.\\nIn some time after. Congress, desiring to obtain the benefit of the\\nfine timber growing on the Loudoun Heights, and not deeming\\nit proper to ask any further grants from the State of Virginia\\nleased in perpetuity of Lord Fairfax, proprietor of the Northern\\nNeck, the right to all the timber growing and to grow on a\\ntract of thirteen hundred and ninety-five acres on the Loudoun\\nHeights, immediately adjoining Harper s Ferrj-.", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF HARPER S FERRY.\\nThus prepared the (lovernment commenced the erection of\\nshops, and in 1Y96 a Mr. Perkins was appointed to the Superin-\\ntendency. He is represented as having been an amiable, unsophis-\\nticated man, and tradition yet tells of his simplicity of dress and\\ndeportment. During his time nothing of moment occurred at\\nthe I lace. The town was yet in its infancy with very few deni-\\nzens, and as the period antedates the time of that venerable gen-\\ntlemai, the oldest inhabitant, little is known of what occurred\\nat thai period.\\nMr. Perkins was succeeded in 1810 by James Stubblelield, a\\nVirginian and a gentleman of the true Virginia stamp. His\\nSuperintendency was the longest of any in the annals of Harper s\\nFerry, haing continued from 1810 till 1829, a period of nine-\\nteen years. Charges of a malicious though trivial kind having\\nbeen brought against him a Court Martial was convened for\\ntheir investigation, when he was honorably acquitted after a\\nprotracted trid. The proud Virginian, however, refused to con-\\ntinue in his place. He had been a benefactor to the people and\\nhad been treated with ingratitude by many he had been honor-\\nably acquitted hj a military tribunal, (always the most rigorous\\nof Courts) his honor w^as satisfied and he voluntarily vacated the\\nplace.\\nIn Mr. Stubblefield s time, about the year 1818, a gentleman\\nof the State of Maing, named John H. Hall, invented a breech-\\nloading gun, probably the first of the kind ever manufactured.\\nHe obtained a patent for his invention, and the Government,\\nconcluding to adopt the gun into their service, Mr. Hall was sent\\nto Harper s Ferry to superintend its manufacture. Two build-\\nings on the Island were set apart for him, and he continued to\\nmanufacture his gun in these shops until 1840, when he moved\\nto Missouri. After this period other buildings were erected on\\nthe Island for the manufacture of the Minnie Rifle but the\\nplace retained the name of Hall s works, by which it was\\nknown in Mr. Hall s time. It was sometimes also called the\\nKifle Factory. The reader wdll understand by the term ar-\\nmory, used in this work, the main buildings on the Potomac.\\nAlthough both ranges of shops were used for the manufacture\\nof arms, custom designated the one as the armory and the", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8 AKNALS OF HABPEe s FEKRY.\\nother was known by the title of the Rifle Factory, or Hall s\\nworks.\\nMr. Hall was the father of the Hon. Willard Hall, a member\\nof Congress from Missouri, and at one time Governor of that\\nState. He was a high-toned gentleman and a man af great\\nability.\\nDuring Mr. Stubblefield s administration, in 1824, the Bell\\nShop of the armory was destroyed by fire. It got its name\\nfrom its having the armory bell suspended in a turret which\\novertopped the roof. The origin of the fire was never discov-\\nered, but it is supposed that some sparks from a fire made in the\\nyard for culinary purposes caused the conflagration.\\nMr. Stubbletield was succeeded in 1829 by Coloael Dunn.\\nThis gentleman had formerly been connected with a manufac-\\nturing establishment at the mouth of Antietara Cree):. His was\\na melancholy history. He w^as a strict disciplinarian, and indeed\\nis represented as having been a martinet. The severity of his\\ndiscipline offended several of the operatives and he paid with\\nhis life a heavy penalty for his harshness. A yoang man named\\nEbenezer Cox, an armorer, having given him dffence for some\\nbreach of discipline he dismissed him from employment. It is\\nsaid that Cox expressed contrition and made submission to Colo-\\nnel Dunn who in iolent language refused to be appeased, and\\ndisplayed great vindictiveness by threateaing with expulsion\\nfrom the armory any operative who should shelter Cox in his\\nhouse. Cox was an unmarried man and liad no home of his own,\\nand consequently this threat of the Superintendent caused him\\ngreat distress. Thus driven to despair, Cox armed himself with\\na carbine and presented himself at the office of Colonel Dunn\\nabout noon on the 30th day of January, 1830. What conversa-\\ntion took place is unknown, but in a few moments a report of\\nfire arms was heard. People rushed into Colonel Dunn s ofiice\\nand were met by his wife, who with loud lamentations informed\\nthem of the murder of her husband. The Colonel was found\\nwith a ghastly wound in the stomach. Life was just departing\\nand no information could be got from him, Mrs. Dunn, it ap-\\npears, was in another apartment and knew nothing except the\\nfact of the murder. Suspicion, however, at once rested on Cox\\nand diligent search was made for him, when he was discovered", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF HARPEr s FERRY. 9\\nin the Wheel House. He made no resistance and he was im-\\nmediately committed to Charlestown Jail. The body of Colonel\\nDunn was buried in Sharpsburg. There is a tradition that the\\nday on whicli he was interred was the coldest ever experienced\\nin this latitude. So severe indeed was tlie cold that it is thought\\nto be of sufficient interest to be mentioned in the chronicles of\\nthe place. In the course of the following summer (August 27th)\\nCox was publicly executed near Charlestown, confessing his guilt\\nand hinting at complicity on the part of some others. His as-\\nsertion, however, M^as not considered of sufficient importance to\\nform ground for indictment against others and there were no\\nmore prosecutions. This murder marks an era in the history of\\nHarper s Ferry, and although many more important and thrilling\\nevents have since occurred there, this unfortunate occurrence still\\nfurnishes material for many a fire side tale, and the site of the\\nhouse in which the murder was perpetrated is still pointed out\\nas unhallowed ground.\\nGeneral George Rust succeeded Colonel Dunn in 1830. For\\nthe seven years that he superintended the armory nothing of any\\ninterest is recorded. He was rather popular with the employees\\nand many survivors of his time speak well of his administration.\\nIt may be that the melancholy death of his predecessor cast a\\ngloom on the place which operated to prevent the occurrence of\\nany stirring events.\\nGeneral Rust was succeeded in 1S37 by Colonel Edward Lucas,\\na Virginian. He M^as an exeedingly amiable, generous and good\\nman, although tiery and pugnacious when he deemed himself\\ninsulted. He was extremely popular, and the writer well re-\\nmembers in after years his bent foi-m walking or riding his mule\\nalong the streets of Harper s Ferry, lavishing kind expressions\\non old and young, and receiving in return the hearty good wishes\\nof every one he met. The name of Colonel Ed. was familiar\\nas a household word at Harper s Ferry; and as he was re-\\nspected in life so was he honored and lamented at his death,\\nwhich occurred in 1S58, while he occupied the position of Pay-\\nmaster. Xothing of importance is chronicled as having occurred\\nduring Colonel Lucas Superintendency. We will remark that\\nColonel Lucas and his predecessors, with military titles, were in\\nreality civillians, being merely militia officers, or getting their", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 ANNALS OF HAEPER s FERRY.\\ntitles by courtesy. Tliis remark is necessary for understanding\\nthe f ollowinoc.\\nCHAPTER 11.\\nColonel LiTcas was succeeded by Major Craig in 1841. He was\\nan Ordnance ctfficer, and of course, his education being military,\\nhe was inclined somewhat to that strictness of discipline which\\nthe most aimiable men in military life soon learn to exact of their\\ninferiors, having been tauglit to observe it themselves towards\\ntheir superiors. There were two classes of (tperatives in the\\narmory day-workers and piece-workers. By an order of Major\\nCraig the latter were obliged to work the same number of hours\\nas the former. This order was deemed unjust by the piece-\\nworkers, as tliey considered themselves entitled to the privilege\\nof working whatever time they chose. They claimed remunera-\\ntion only for the work done, and in their opinion it mattered\\nlittle to the Government how many hours they were employed.\\nThe Superintendent thought otherwise, however, and hence arose\\na causa teterrhna helli. For a long time the contest continued,\\nand at length, in 1842, a large number of the opei-atives char-\\ntered a boat on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and proceeded\\nto Washington to see the then President, John Tyler. It is sup-\\nposed that Jason and his Argonauts, when they sailed in quest of\\nthe Golden Fleece, and Ulysses in his somewhat tedious voyage\\nhome from Troy, encountered more vicissitudes than usually\\nhappen to those who go down to the sea in ships but those\\nvoyages were but pleasure trips compared with that of the ad-\\nventurous Harper s Ferrians. So fruitful indeed was it in ro-\\nmantic incidents and thrilling adventures that it will, no doubt,\\nat some future day, form the theme of an Epic v;hen a Harper s\\nFerry Homer shall appear with genius adequate to the subject.\\nMany a treacherous Scylla and Charybdis threatened them with\\nshipwreck, many a Siren lured them to destruction, and in many", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF IIARPKR s FERRY. 11\\ncases, alas did the devoted manners succumb to their fascina-\\ntions. Many a laughter moving, side-splitting story is related at\\nthe expense of members of the crew hj some of their companions,\\nand on the whole this voyage marks a memorable era in the his-\\ntory of the place.\\nArrived at length in A\u00c2\u00a5ashington, they obtained an audience\\nof the President, who received them in a style worthy of the\\nhead of a great nation and a Virginia gentleman. Compliments,\\nwere exchanged and the President gave each of them a cordial\\nshake of the liand, an honor which was duly appreciated, for it\\nis related that one of the Harper s Ferrians, in a burst of enthu-\\nsiasm, readied out a hand of enormous proportions and dubious-\\ncolor to meet that of the President, at the same time exclaiming,\\nHallo, old Fellow, give us your Corn-stealer. Tliis handsome\\ncompliment was, no doubt, ver}- gratifying to the President, for\\nhe made them a speech in which he declared in the most em-\\nphatic manner that he considered the working-men as the bone\\nand sinew of the land, and its dependence in war or peace that\\nhe loved them as sucli, and that their interests should be his care.\\nIn this strain he contiuued fur some time, but he suddenly threw\\ncold wMicr on the enthusiasm he at iirst created, by telling them\\nthe;, must all go home and hammer out their own salvation.\\nTJiis figurati^-e expression, and the allusion to that emblem of\\nulcanic labor, the hammer, were not received with the admira-\\ntion which tlieir wit deserved. It is said that many loud and\\ndeep curses were uttered by some enthusiastic but indiscreet\\npiece-workers, and that the august presence of Tyler too, had\\nnot the effect of awing the bold navigators into a suitable respect\\nfor the head of the nation. They returned home wiser if not\\nbetter men, and from that period dates the bitter opposition of\\nmany Harper s Ferrians to the military system of Superintend-\\nency, which continued until its final overthrow in 1854. This\\ncontest is the chief event in the time of Colonel Craig.\\nHe was succeeded in 1844 by Major John Symington, another\\nmilitary officer. Major Symington was an exceedingly eccentric\\nman. His talents were undoubted and he got credit for many\\nvirtues, but eccentiicity was his leading characteristic. Flis voice\\nwas of a peculiar intonation and his gestures grotesque, but\\nwithal he liad a clear head and a good heart, and during his", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "o\\n12 ANNALS OF HARPER S FERRY.\\nadministration many improvements were made at his suggestion,\\nand the people were generally prosperous. The shops were re-\\nmodeled, and many believe that he did more for the prosperity\\nof Harper s Ferry than any other Superintendent. Those who\\nknew him best, assert that his eccentricity was pretense and as-\\nsumed for the gratification of a latent vein of humor. On the\\nwhole, he is remembered with very kind feelings.\\nIn his time one of those exhibitions, rare at the time, but un-\\nfortunately too common now-a-days, a prize fight, took place at\\nHarper s Ferry. The notorious Yankee Sullivan and an English\\nbruiser named Ben Caunt, met by appointment there in 1846,\\nand treated the people to one of their brutal exliibitions. Caunt\\ncame to Harper s Ferry several weeks before the fight, and there\\nhe went through his course of training. Sullivan arrived the\\nnight before the fight, and with him came a crowd of shoulder-\\nhitters, pick-pockets and every species of infamous character.\\nTo use a homely phrase, they took the town, and until the\\nfight was over the utmost terror prevailed among the inhabi-\\ntants. Sullivan won the fight, but the exhibition broke up in a\\nrow.\\nIn the Summer of 1850, that fearful scourge, the Asiatic\\nCholera, made its appearance at Harper s Ferry and decimated\\nthe mhabitants. It is supposed that its ravages are generally\\nconfined to people of dissolute habits. It was not so in this case,\\nfor it visited the homes of rich and poor indiscriminately, and\\nall classes suffered equally. It is estimated that over one hun-\\ndred people perished by this visitation, and the town having been\\ndeserted by all that could conveniently do so, the business of the\\nplace sufi^ered severely.\\nMajor Symington was succeeded in 1851 by Colonel Benjamin\\nHuger. His administration was not marked by any very impor-\\ntant events. The excitement against the militar}^ system, that\\narose in the time of Colonel Craig, continued unabated. During\\nColonel Huger sSuperintendency, in 1851, a sad accident occurred\\nat Harper s Ferry. On the opening of the Baltimore and Ohio\\nRail Road from Cumberland to Fairmont, an excursion train,\\ncontaining the principal officers of the road, proceeded from\\nBaltimore to the then Western terndnus, Fairmont. A number\\nof Harper s Ferrians determined to give them a salute as they", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "ANNA1.S OF HAKPEr s FERKY. 13\\npassed their station, and with this purpose they loaded an old\\n12-pounder cannon which was kept at the armory for such occa-\\nsions. Through some mismanagement there was a premature\\nexplosion, which caused the death of two colored men. One of\\nthem, named John Butler, was a veteran of the war of 1812,\\nand was long a i-esident of liarper s Ferry. The other, named\\nScipio, was, like Butler, an institution of the place. A third\\nparty, a man named James O Loughlin, to whose want of fore-\\nsight the accident is attributed, lost his life shortly afterw^ardfi\\nby being run over by the Hail Koad cars in front of the ticket\\noffice.\\nIn 1852, on an order from the Secretary of War, the Govern-\\nment disposed of a considerable portion of its property at Harper s\\nFerry to employees of the armory. Many of them desired to\\npurchase houses, and the Government deemed it politic to en-\\ncourage them in so doing. It insured a number of prudent,\\nsober and steady mechanics for employment in the Government\\nservice, men who, having an interest in the place, would consult\\nthe well beintr of societv there and would feel the more attached\\nto the government service. Many houses and lots were, there-\\nfore, disposed of at a public sale in 1852, and at the same time\\nmany donations were made by the Government for religious,\\neducational and tow^n purposes.\\nIn 1852 there was a remarkable inundation at Harper s Ferry.\\nThe Winter of 51-52 was exceedingly severe. From November\\nuntil April the snow lay deep on the ground, and when about\\nthe middle of the latter month, there was a heavy warm rain for\\nseveral days, the snow suddenly melted and an unprecedented\\nflood was the consequence. The Potomac, swollen by a thousand\\ntributaries, the smallest of which might, at the time, aspire to\\nthe dignity of a river, rolled in an irresistible tide and was met\\nhy the Shenandoah with the accumulated waters of the whole\\nValley of Virginia. The town was literally submerged, and\\nlarge boats were propelled with oar and pole along the principal\\nstreets. Much damage was, of course, done to property, but no\\nloss of life is recorded. A similar inundation is chronicled as\\nhaving taken place in 1832, and it is believed that every twenty\\nyears the town is partially submerged. It may be observed that\\nC olonel Hus;er afterwards became a General in the Confederate", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "l4 ANNALS OF HARPErV FERKY.\\nservice, and obtained an nnenvial^le notoriety for mismanage-\\nment of the force nnder his command in the seven days^ fight\\nbefore Richmond.\\nColonel linger was succeeded in 1854, by Major Bell, who was\\nthe last of the military Superintendents. lie reigned but a\\nfew months, the Government having decided about the end of\\nthat year to change the system of armory Government back\\nfrom military to civil. There was great rejoicing among the\\nanti-military men, and a corresponding depression among those of\\nthe opposite party, for the military system had many fi-iends, al-\\nthough they were in a minority.\\nC a AFTER III.\\nMajor Bell was succeeded, early in 1S55, by Henry W. Clowe, a\\nnative of Prince William Comity, Virginia, and a very worthy\\nmechanic, who had been employed for many yeai-s before as mas-\\nter mill-^\\\\Tight in the Armory. He was a man of a very impulsive\\nnature, with all the virtues and many of the faults of such men.\\nHis temper was high, but he was generous to a fault; and never\\ndid Hai-per s Ferry enjoy greater prosperity than under his admin-\\nistration. Whether tliis was o^ving to his good management or not,\\nis a question which each man will decide according to his partiali-\\nties but the fact of the prosperity of Harper s Ferry at that time\\nis undoubted. Having been long associated with the men under\\nhim as an equal he had many difficulties to encounter to wliich a\\nstranger would not be exposed. It is probable, however, that his\\ngreatest trouble arose from the intrigues of politicians. He had a\\nquarrel with the then representative in Congress from the district\\nin wliich Harper s Ferry is situated, and by his iniluence, or that\\nof some other person, Mr. Clowe was removed,\\nDmlng Mr. Clowe s administration, in the Spring of 1856, a\\ntragical occurrence took place at Harper s Ferry. T^vo men,\\nw4iose names, for obvious reasons, we will not mention, had a\\nquarrel, originating in drunkemiess, when one of them struck the", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF HAKPEr s FKRRY. 15\\nother ^\\\\\u00e2\u0080\u00a2itll a four pound weight on the head, breaking his skull in\\nseveral places. The womided man lay in a comatose state for some\\nhours, when he died. The other party was arrested immediately\\nand conveyed to -Charlestown Jail to await tiial. Having con-\\ncealed a small pistol on his person he blew his OAni brains out\\nin a few minutes after being lodged in jail, and his spirit arrived\\nat the Great Judgment Seat ahnost as soon as that of his victim.\\nIn the Summer of 1858 (Jiuie lOth) a melancholy accident oc-\\ncun ed in the aimoiy yard, whereby Mr. Thomas Cmmingliam, a\\nveiy worthy man, lost his life. A veiy cmious circumstance hap-\\npened in connection with this accident. The mishap occurred in\\nthe morning, and about 9 o clock the wiiter of these pages was\\npassing the amioiy gate, when he encomitered a very respectable\\ncitizen of the place, who in an excited maimer asked him if he\\nhad heard of any accident in the shops or yard. Having heard of\\nnone, the M^riter eagerly inquired what the other had heard. He\\nreplied that he had heard of no accident, but that he was certain\\nsomebody was or would be huil; that day, for he had seen in liis\\ndreams the night before several men at work in a deep excavation\\nin the armory yard, when he noticed particles of clay falling from\\nthe sides and a big rock starting to fall on the men. In his en-\\ndeavors to give notice to the parties in danger he awoke, and tliis\\nwas liis ground for behoving that somebody would be injm-ed that\\nday. Politeness alone prevented the writer from laughing out-\\nright at what he considered puerihty in his friend. He reasoned\\nwith him on the absm dity of a belief in dreams and other super-\\nstitions. While the}^ were yet talking, a man ran out from the\\narmoiy in breathless haste and inquired for a doctor. On l)eing\\nquestioned, lie repHed that Mr. Ominingham had been crushed by\\na rock falling on him in an excavation he was making, and that\\nMr. Edward Savin also liad been badly hurt. Mr. Cumiingham\\nlived but a few minutes after being injm-ed, and thus was the\\ndream literally verified. Wliether this was merely a coincident or\\na psychological phenomenon, let eveiy one judge for liimself.\\nThere is high authority for beHe\\\\ing that coming events cast\\ntheir shadows before, and the above, for which the writer can\\nvouch, would certainly appear to confirm the truth of what every\\nman believes in his heart, but few dare to assert, for fear of incur-\\nring ridicule. The circumstance convinced the wiiter that verily", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16 ANNALS C)F HAKPER s FERRY.\\nthere are many things transpiring daily which do not enter into\\nanybody s philosophy,\\nMr. Clowe was succeeded in Jannaiy, 1859, by Alfred M. Bar-\\nbour, a young law^^er from Western Virginia, whose administra-\\ntion w^as the most eventfril of all, as it was during that period the\\ngreat Civil War broke out, which, it is well kno-\\\\\\\\ii, caused the total\\ndestniction of tlie armory works. Other remarkable events, how-\\never, occurred in Mr. Barbour s time, wliich were precui-sors of the\\nsubsequent great evils, and foreshadowed the final catastrophe.\\nThese we will narrate in the next chapter.\\nOn the 28th of June, 1859, a fierce tornado swept over Harper s\\nFeny. About 3 o clock in the afternoon a thunder storm came\\nup, and two clouds were noticed to approach each other, driven by\\ntwo currents of wind from opposite directions. When they en-\\ncoimtered one another, a fierce flash of lightning, accompanied by\\nan appalling tlnmder peal, lit up the liea%-ens. Rain poured down\\nin cataracts, and as if yEoIus had suddenly released all his noisy\\nsubjects, the winds rushed from all quartei-s of the Ileavans and\\nencomitered each otlier in the gap through which the Potomac\\nfinds its way to the Ocean. In the conflict a fine covered bridge\\nthat crossed the Shenandoah, about five hundred yards above itfj\\nmouth, was lifted from its piers and completely o^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0el turned into tlit;\\nbed of the stream. Mrs. Sloan, a respectable old lady happened\\nto be on the bridge at the time, and, of course, was cari ied with it.\\nShe was found sliortly after standing upright in a shallow^ place of\\nthe river, completely covered over with tlie debris of the wrecked\\nbridge, but fortunately and miraculously she received veiy little\\ninjury.", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF HAEPER s FERRY. 17\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nTHE BR-O^WlSr I^.-A.IID-\\nDiu ing the Summer of 1859 a party of strange men made their\\nappearance at Sandy Hook, a small village in AVashington comity,\\nMar} land, in the immediate vicinity of Harper s Ferry. Witli\\nthem was an old man of venerable appearance and austere de-\\nmeanor, who called himself Smith. They represented themselves\\nas prospecting for minerals, and took fi-equent and long rambles\\nwith tliis ostensible purpose over the various peaks of the Blue\\nRidge Momitains. It has long been believed that in the earth be-\\nneath the wild crags of the Maryland and Loudoun Heights, mmes\\nof different metals and fabulous value are liidden, awaiting the\\neye of science and the hand of industry to discover and develop\\nthem. Several of the citizens of the place have fi om time to\\ntime supposed they had discovered them, and no small excitement\\nhas been aroused at various times on tliis accomit. Specimens of\\ndifferent kinds of ore, or what were supposed to be such, were sent\\nto Boston and subjected to chemical analysis, when very favorable\\nreports were returned by the most eminent chemists and geologists\\nof the Athens of America. No wonder, therefore, was felt at the\\nappearance of this party, and their rambles over the toituous and\\ndifficult patlis of the mountains excited no suspicion. They at\\nfirst boarded at the house of Mr. Ormond Butler, where their con-\\nduct was unexceptionable. They paid in gold for whatever they\\npurchased, and as their mamiers were com teous to all they were,\\non the whole, veiy popular. After a few weeks stay at Sandy\\nHook they removed to what is called the Kemiedy Farm, about\\nlive miles from Harper s Ferry, on the Maryland side of the Po-\\ntomac, where they estabhshed their headquarters. While at the\\nKennedy Farm, Smith and his party, among whom there were\\nthree of his sons, made themselves very agreeable to their neigh-\\nbors, and they were as popular there as they had been at Sandy\\nHook. The father was regarded as a man of stern morality, de-\\nvoted to Church exercises, and the sons, with the others of the\\nparty, as good natured, amiable young men. Thus things (continued\\ntill the night of Sunday, October 16th, 1859. On that night, a\\nlittle after 10 o clock, Mr. William Williams, one of the watch", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 AJS NALS OF HAKPEk s FERRY.\\nmen ou the Rail Road l)ridge, was surprised to tind liiinself taken\\nprisoner by an araied party, consisting of about twenty men, who\\nsuddenly made their appearance from the Maryland side of the\\nriver. No exi: lanations were given. The party then proceeded\\nto the armory enclosure, taking Avith them their prisoner, leaving,\\nhowever, two men to guard the bridge. They next captured the\\nwatchmen at the armory and took possession of that establishment.\\nThe party then di\\\\dded themselves into two bodies, one remaining\\nin the armory and the other proceeding to the Rifle Factory, half\\na mile up the Shenandoah, where they captured Mr. Sanmel Wil-\\nliams, an old and liighly respected man, who w^as in charge of the\\nbuildings as night watchman. He was conducted to the armoiy,\\nAvhere the other prisoners were confined, and a detachment of the\\nstrangers was left to supply his place. About 12 o clock, Mr. Pat-\\nrick Higgins of Sandy Plook, arrived on tlie bridge for the pur-\\npose of relieving Mr. William Williams, lie found all in dark-\\nness, and suspecting that something had gone wrong wdth Williams\\nhe called loudly for him. To his astonishment he was ordered to\\nhalt, and two men presented guns at his breast, at the same time\\ntelling him he was their prisoner. One of them undertook to con-\\nduct him to the armory, but on arri^dng near the Yirginia end of\\nthe*l)ridge, tlie hot-blooded Celt struck his captor a stunning blow\\nwith his fist, and before the stranger could recover fi-om the effects\\nof the l)low lie succeeded in escaping to Fouke s hotel, where he\\neluded all pursuit. Several shots were fired after him without\\neffect, and he attril^utes his safety to the fact tliat his pursuei-s\\nstumbled, in the darkness, over some cross pieces in the bridge.\\nAbout this time a party of the invaders went to the houses of\\nMessrs. Washington and Alstadt, living a few miles from Hai-per s\\nFerry, and took them and some of their slaves as prisoners, con-\\nducting them to the general rendezvous for their captives, the\\narmory enclosure. From the house of Mr. Washington they took\\nsome relics of the Great Wasliington and the Revolution, which\\nthe proprietor, of course, very highly prized. Among them was a\\nsword, said to be the same that was sent to General Washington\\nby Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, as a present (as an in-\\nscription on it said) fi om the oldest General of the time to the\\nbest. All through the night great excitement existed among such\\nof the (citizens as became cooiiizant of these facts. About 1 o clock,", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OV UAKl KK S FEKRV.\\n19\\nthe eastern hound Express train on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail\\nRoad arri\\\\ ed, in charge of conductor Phelps. The train was de-\\ntained by order of the leader of the band and the telegraph wires\\nwere cut. The object of these ordeit? was, of course, to pre\\\\ ent\\nnews of these proceedings being spread. The train was, however,\\nallowed to proceed after a considerable delay. Wliile the train\\nw^as at Harper s Ferny great excitement, of com-se, existed among\\nthe passengers, who were naturally astonished at these novel pro-\\nceedings. Several shots were exchanged between the attacking\\nforce and some parties unknown, but no pei-son was injured.\\nSome time in the course of the night, Heywood Shepherd, a color-\\ned porter at the Rail Road office, walked towards the bridge, impell-\\ned, no doubt, by curiosity to understand the enigma. He was ordered\\nto halt by the guards at the bridge, and being seized with a panic\\nand running back, was shot through the body. He succeeded in\\nreaching the Rail Road office, where he died, next day at 3 o clock,\\nin great agony. A little before day-light, some early risers were\\nsm-prised to find themselves taken prisoners, as soon as they ap-\\npeared on the streets, and marched to the armory. Among tlierti\\nwas James Dai-rell, aged about sixty years, the bell-ringer at the\\narmory, whose duties, of coui-se, compelled him to be first at his\\npost. It being yet dark he carried a lantern. Wlien near the\\nannoiy gate he was halted by an armed negro, one of the invading\\nparty, and Darrell not dreaming of ^vhat ^vas transpiring, and mis-\\ntaking his assailant for one of Mr. Fouke s negroes on a bender,*\\nstruck him Avitli his lantern and consigned his black soul to the\\nwarmest climate he could think of. The negro presented a Sharp s\\nrifle at Darrell, and, no doubt, the situation ctf bell-ringer at Har\\n|)er s Ferry armory would very soon have been vacant, had not a\\nwhite man belonging to the party caught the gun and pre\\\\ ented the\\nnegro fi-om carrying out his intention. Another white man of the\\nparty, however, came up and struck Darrell on the side with the\\nbutt end of his gun injurying him severely. Darrell was then.\\ndragged before the Captain, who, pitying his age and his bodily\\nsufferings, dismissed him on a sort of parole. Mr. Walter Kemp,\\nan aged, infirm man, bar-tender at Mr. Fouke s hotel, was, about\\nthis time, taken a prisoner and consigned to Limbo with the others.\\nIt was now daylight, and the armorers proceeded singly and in,\\nparties of two and three from their ^-arious homes to work at the", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "80 ANNALS OF HAKPER s FERRY.\\narmory. They were gobbled up in detail and marched to prison^\\nlost in astonishment at these proceedings, and many, peiiiaps,\\ndoubting if they were not yet asleep and dreaming. Many of the\\nofficei*s of the armory were captured, but the Superintendent not\\nbeing in town at the time, the invadei s missed what, no doubt,\\nwould have been to them a much desired prize. About this time Mr.\\nGeorge W. Cutshaw, an old and estimable citizen, proceeded from\\nhis house on High Street to^vards the bridge in company with a\\nlady who was on her way to Washington, and whom Mr. Cutshaw\\nwas escorting across the bridge to the place wliere the Canal packet\\nboat, on which the lady intended to travel, was moored. He passed\\nalong unmolested until he disposed of the lady, but on liis return he\\nencountered on the bridge several armed apparitions, one of them,\\nan old man of comimanding presence, appearing to be the leader.\\nMr. Cutshaw, who is a man of infinite jest, relates in the humor-\\nous manner peculiar to himself, how he, on first seeing them, took\\nup the idea that a great robber} had been committed somewhere,\\nand that the tall, stern figure before him was some famous detec-\\ntive employed to discover and arrest the robbers, while the minor\\nfigures were his assistants. He was halted, but being in a hurry\\nfor breakfast was moving on, when he recei^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ed another and per-\\nemptory challenge. At last he impatiently said, Let me on, what\\ndo /know about your robberies? These were unfortunate words\\nfor him, as they gave the chieftain the idea that his party were\\nsuspected of an intention to plunder. Cutshaw was immediately\\nmarched off to the armory among the other prisonei*s, and the\\nCaptain kept a close eye on him all day.\\nA little before 7 o clock, Mr. Alexander Kelly approached the\\ncorner of High and Shenandoah streets, armed with a shot gun,\\nfor the purpose of having a shot at the invaders. No sooner did\\nhe turn the corner than two shots were fired at liim, and a bullet\\nwas sent through his hat. Immediately afterwards Mr. Thomas\\nBoerly approached the corner with the same pm pose. He was a\\nman of Hurculean strength and great personal courage. He dis-\\ncharged his gun at some of the invaders that were standing at the\\nArsenal gate, when a shot was fired at him from behind the Ar-\\nsenal fence by one of tlie party concealed there. The bullet pene-\\nrated his groin, inflicting a ghastly wound, of which he died in a\\nfew hours.", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF II.VRPEr s FERRY. 21\\nThe writer of these annals met with an adventure which, though\\nit may have partaken of romance, of which he is very fond, was\\nanything but agreeable. Partaking of the general curiosity to\\nknow what it was all about, he imprudently walked down High to\\nShenandoah street. He encountered four armed men at the Ar-\\nsenal gate two white and two black. Not being conscious of any\\nguilt he thought he need not fear anybody. The four guards sa-\\nluted him ci% illy, and one of the white men asked him if he owned\\nany slaves. On his answering in the negative, the strangers told\\nhim there was a movement on foot that would benefit him and all\\npersons who did not own such property. The writer passed on,\\nstrongly impressed with the idea that, sure enough, there was some-\\nthing up. He then looked in at the prisonere, among whom was\\nMr. Thomas Gallaher, to whom he spoke. The leader of the\\nparty approached him and ordered him off the street, telling him\\nthat it was against militaiy law to talk to prisoners. ISTot conceiv-\\ning that he had any right to order him off so unceremoniously, and\\nnot being at the best of times of a very patient temper, the his-\\ntorian refused to comply, when a pistol was presented at his breast,\\nwhich obliged him to duck a little and put a brick wall that en-\\ncloses the annorv between him and the pistol. The Captain\\nthen called out to the same four men, whom the writer encomitered\\nat the Arsenal gate, and who were not thii-ty yards away, to arrest\\nhim. Not relishing imprisonment much more than being shot,\\nour historian dodged up the alley- way that runs along the side\\nwall of the armor} He saw the four men raise their Sharp s\\nrifles to shoot at him, and in order to disconcert their aim he took\\na zig-zag course, wliich probably would not be enough to save him\\nfrom four bullets shot after him in a nan ow alley, had not aid\\ncame fi om an unexpected quarter. And now for the romance\\nA colored woman, who was crouched in a door-way in the alley,\\nrushed out between him and the guns and extending her anns\\nbegged of the men not to shoot. They did not shoot, and the\\npresent generation has not lost, and posterity will not be deprived,\\nof this liistory, a calamity which their shooting would probably have\\nentailed. The writer has always claimed great credit to liimself\\nfor presence of mind in thinking of the zig-zag under those\\nti^jang circumstances; but his friends malic io\\\\isly insinuate that\\nABSENCE of body did more to sa\\\\ e hini than presence of mind.", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "JiXNi S/llje Kif\\nHe takes coiisoiatioii to himself, however, by comparing himself to\\nthe great John Smith, the first explorer oi Virginia, who was once\\nin an equally bad fix, and was sn\\\\ed by the interposition of an-\\nother dusky maiden.\\nIt was now breakfast time, and the Captain sent an order to\\nFouke s Hotel for refreslmients for his men. It is not Iviiowu\\nwhat: the state of his exchequer was, but he did not pay for the\\nbreakfasts in any usual species of currency. He released Walter,\\nfamiliarly called Watty Kemp, the bar-tender, and he annomiced\\nthis as the equivalent he was willing to pay. It is to be feared\\nthat Mr. Foulce did not duly appreciate the advantages he gained\\nby this profitable bargain, and it may be that Uncle Watt}^ him-\\nself did not feel much llattered at the estimate put on liim, and his\\nbeing considered an equivalent for twenty Ijreakfasts. Be this as\\nit may, the bargain was struck and the grub provided.\\nUp to this time no person, except the prisoners, could tell who\\nthe party were. To tlie prisoners, however, as was afterwards as-\\n(jertained, the party confessed their puii)ose of liberating the slaves\\nof Virginia, and. freedom was offered to any captive who would\\nfurnish a negro man as a rec-i-uit for the Army of the Lord. As\\nt.heie was no communication allowed between the prisoners and\\ntheir friends, the people generally were yet ignorant of the names,\\nirambers and purposes of the strangers, and as may well be imag-\\nined, Madam Rumor had plenty of employment for her hundred\\ntongues. Soon, however, they were recognized b}^ some as the\\nmineral explorers, and suspicion at once rested on a man named\\nJolm E. Cook, who had been sojourning at Hai-per s Ferry for\\nsome years in various capacities, and v\\\\-ho had married into a re-\\nspectable family there. He had been seen associating with the\\nSmith party, and as he had often been heard to boast of his ex-\\n})loit8 in- tlie Kansas war, on the Freesoil side, it was instinc-\\ntively guessed that he and tiie Smiths were connected in some\\nproject for freeing the slaves, and this opinion was confimied by\\ntlie fact of there being armed negroes in the party. Shortly after\\na new liglit broke on the people, and it was ascertained that the\\nCaptain was no other than the redoubta])le John Brown, of Kansas\\nnotoriety. About 9 o clock the people had recovered fi-om their\\namazement and furnished themselves with arms. This was no\\neasy matter, as the Arsenal and nearly all the store-houses were", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF HARPEk s FERRY. 23\\nill tlie possession of the eneiuy. It was recollected, however, that\\nsome time before, a lot of gnus had been removed from the place\\nwhere they were usually stored, in order to protect tliem from the\\n)-iver, which, at the time, had overflowed its banks and encroached\\non the armorv buildings. Enough was procured from this lot to\\nequip a few small companies of cntizens, and a desultorv engage-\\nment (^ommen(;ed around the armory buildings and the ^djacent\\nstreets, which continued all day. The Rifle Factory was also\\nattacked, and the party there svere soon dri^ en into the Shenan-\\ndoah, where they all perished l\\\\y the l ullets of the (utizens or by\\ndrowning, except one, a negro named Copeland, who was taken\\nprisoner. At the armory, however, where Brown connnanded in\\npereon, a more determined resistance w^as made. Brown had told\\nseveral of his prisoners, in the course of the inorning, that he ex-\\nj)ected large reinforcements, and when about 12 o clock a strong\\nforce was seen marching down the river on the Maryland side,\\ngreat excitement pre\\\\ailed, it being supposed these were some of\\nthe expected reinforcements. It was soon as(;ertained, however,\\nthat they were a company of Ilarpei ^s Ferrians. luulei Captain\\nWilliam Moore, wlio had crossed the river about a mile above\\nHarper s Ferry, and marched down m order to take i:)ussession\\nof the bridge and cut ofl^ Brown s retreat. Brown now plainly\\nsaw that the fortunes of tlie day were againsr liim, and he. tliere-\\nfore, sent two of his prisoners, Messrs. A. M. ivitzmiller and\\nResin Cross, under guard of two of his men, to negotiate with\\nCaptain Moore for permission to vacate the place with his men\\nwithout molestation. The two ambassadors proceeded with their\\nguards towards the bridge but as they came near the (Tault\\nHouse, several shots were fired from that building, by whicli\\nthe two Raiders were very severely wounded and put Ao/ s- tl.\\nGonibat. One of them contrived to make his wa} back to the\\narmory, but the other w^as unable to move, and Messrs. Ivitzuiillci\\nand Cross helped him into Mr. Fouke s Hotel, were his wounds\\nwere dressed. It may well be imagined that neither Mr.. Ivitz-\\nmiller nor Mr. Cross returned to captivity. Brown finding that\\nhis doves did not return with the olive branch, and despairing of\\nsuccess, called in from the streets the survi\\\\ ors of liis party, and\\npicking out nine of the most prominent of liis pi-isoners as hos-\\ntages, he retreated with his men into a small brick Imiiding neai-", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24\\nANNALS OF HARPER S FERRY.\\nthe Armory gate, called the Engine Houbc, taking with him\\nhis nine prisoners. A company arrived about this time from\\nMartinsburg, who, with some citizens of Harper s Ferry and the\\nsurrounding country, made a rush on the Armory and released\\nthe great mass of the prisoners, not, however, without suffering\\nsome loss in wounded, caused t.j a galling fire kept up by the\\nenemy from the Engine House. They had pierced the walls for\\nmusketry, and through these holes kept up a brisk fire, by which\\nthey not only wounded the Martinsburg men and the Harper s\\nFerrians. l)ut some Charlestown men also.\\n-Before Brown s men retreated off the streets into the Engine\\nHouse, two of them approached the corner of High and Shenan-\\ndoali streets, where Mr. Boerly had been shot in the morning.\\nIt was then about 2 o clock, and Mr. Geoi ge Turner, a very re-\\nspectable gentleman of Jefferson county, who had come to town\\non piivato business, was standing at the door of William Moore s\\nhouse, on High street, about one hundred yards from the corner.\\nHe was in the act of resting a gun on a board partition near the\\ndoor to shoot at these men, when a bullet from the rifle of one\\nof them struck him on the shoulder, the only part of him ex-\\nposed. The bullet, after taking an eccentric course, entered his\\nneck and killed him almost instantly. A physician who exam-\\nined him describes the wound as of a most singular kind, the\\nbullet having taken a course altogether at variance with the laws\\nsupposed to regulate such projectiles.\\nWhen Mr. Tiu*ner was shot, the two men instantly retreated,\\nand a ludicrous occurrence took place, if, indeed, any event of\\nthat ill-omened day can be supposed calculated to excite merri-\\nment. Mr. John McClenen, a citizen of Harper s Ferry, shot\\nafter them, and his bullet striking the cartridge box of one of\\nthem as he was approaching the armory gate, an explosion of\\nhis ammunition took place, and he entered the gate amid a dis-\\nplay of fire works of a noAel description. He did not much\\nrelisli the honor paid him, and with accelerated pace he took\\ni-ef uge in the Engine House with his companions.\\nAfter they were all housed up in their fortress they killed an-\\nother ery valuable citizen. Fountain Beckham, Esq., for many\\nyears Agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Boad at Harper s\\nFerr\\\\, and lona a mas^istrate of Jefferson countv. Beins: a man", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "AKNALS OF harper s FERRY. 25\\nof nervous temperament, he was naturally much excited by the\\noccurrences of the day. Moreover, Haywood Shepherd, the ne-\\ngro shot on the bridge the previous night, had been his faithful\\nservant, arid he was naturally much grieved and very indignant\\nat his death. He crept along the Kail Road under shelter of a\\nwater station Avhich then stood there, and peeped round the\\ncorner of the building at the Engine House opposite. A bullet\\nfrom one of Brown s men penetrated his heart and he died in-\\nstantly. A man named Thompson, said to be Brown s son-in-\\nlaw, had been taken prisoner a short time before by the citizens,\\nand was confined in Mr. Fouke s Hotel under guard. It was the\\nintention of the citizens to hand him over to the civil authorities\\nfor trial, but the death of Mi-. Beckham so exasperated them,\\nthat the whole current of their feelings was changed. They\\nrushed into the hotel, seized Thompson, dragged him to the\\nbridge and riddled him with bullets. He, however, tried to es-\\ncape by letting himself drop through the bridge into the river.\\nHe had been left for dead, but it appears he had vitality enough\\nleft to accomplish this feat. He was discovered and a shower of\\nbullets was discharged at him. He was either killed or drowned,\\nas he could be seen for a day or two after lying at the bottom of\\nthe river with his ghastly face still exhibiting his fearful death-\\nagony.\\nAnother of the Raiders, named Lehman, attempted to escape\\nfrom the upper end of the armory yard by swimming or wading\\nthe Potomac. He had reached a rock a short distance from the\\nshore, when he was shot and killed by a citizen of Harper*s\\nFerry. His body also lay for some time where he tell.\\nA little before dark, Brown asked if any of his prisoners would\\nvolunteer to gro out amonsr the citizens and induce them to cease\\nfiring on the Engine House, as they were endangering the lives\\nof their friends who were prisoners. He promised on his part\\nthat if there was no firing on his party there should be none by\\nthem. Mr. Israel Russell undertook the dangerous duty, and the\\ncitizens were induced to cease firing, in consideration of the risk\\nthey incurred of injuring the prisoners. Like Messrs, Kitzmiller\\nand Cross, Mr. Russell, it may well be supposed, did not return\\nto captivity.\\nIt was now dark and the wildest excitement existed in the", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 a\\\\nnals -of harper*? ferry.\\ntowD, especially among the friends of the killed, wounded and\\nprisoners. It had rained a little all day and the atmosphere was\\nraw and cold. Now a cloudy and moonless sky hung lij^e a pall\\nover the scene of conflict, and on the whole a more disn^al night\\ncannot well be imagined. Guards were stationed round the En-\\ngine iloase to prevent Brown s escape, and as forces were con-\\nstantly arriving from Winchester, Frederick, Maryland, and other\\nplaces, the town soon assumed quite a military appearance. The\\nauthorities in Washington had, in the meantime, been notified,\\nand in the course of the night Colonel Robert E. Lee, afterwards\\nthe famous General of tlie Southern Confederacy, arrived with a\\nforce of United States Marines to protect the Government in-\\nterests and capture or kill the invaders. About 11 o clock,\\nJBrown again endeavored to open negotiations for a safe conduct\\nfor himself and his men out of the place. Col. Shriver and\\n(Japtain Sinn, of the Frederick troops, had a conference with\\nkirn, which did not result in anything satisfactory. About 8\\no clock on Tuesday morning Colonel Lee demanded a surrender,\\nand on Brown s refusal, an assault was made by the Marines un-\\nder Lieutenant Greene. They at first tried to break open the\\ndoor with sledge hammers, but failing, they picked up a ladder\\nthat lay near, and with this they succeeded in making a breach.\\nThrough a narrow aperture thus made Lieutenant Greene\\nsqueezed himself, but found that the insurgents had barricaded\\nthe door with a fire engine and hose that were in tJie building.\\nOver these Lieutenant Greene scrambled, followed by his men,\\nand attacked Brown, who, with his party, was fortified behind\\nthe engine. After the marines had effected a breach and com-\\nmenced rushing in, the insurgents fired on them, and one of\\nthem, Luke Quinn, was mortally, and another slightly, wounded.\\nBrown s men were all ])ayoneted or captured, but fortunately\\nnone of the prisoners received any injury. Their escape was\\nindeed miraculous, as it was difficult for the marines to distin-\\nguish them from the insurgents. Brown himself was severely\\nwounded by Lieutenant Greene, and was taken to another build-\\ning, where his wounds were dressed. He received a cut on the\\nhead and a sword thrust in the shoulder. Two or three survivors\\nof his men were kept in the Engine House under guard.\\nThe bodies of the slain raiders were buried in one ^rave.", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "A i ALS OF HAKFEK S FEKKY.\\non the southern bank of the Shenandoah, about half a mile\\nabove Harper s Ferry, anfi the prisoners. Brown inchided, were\\nlodged in Charlestown Jail. Some had, however, escaped, and\\nCook liad not been seen at all in the fray. There was satisfac-\\ntory evidence, however, of his having been connected with the\\nparty, and it was sooi\\\\ ascertained that he, Owen Brown, ijiie of\\nold John s sons, and others had been detailed to operate on the\\nMaryland shore, and that they had seized a scliool house, taken\\nthe Domine prisoner and driven away the pupils, for the purpose\\nof establishing a depot of arms at a point convenient to Harper s\\nFerry. It was also ascertained that they had all the da} of the\\n17th kept up a tire from the Maryland Heights on*the people of\\nthe town, and that late in the evening Cook had got supper at\\nthe Canal Lock Honse, on the Maryland side of the river. It\\nwas, moreover, supposed that finding tlie fate of the day against\\nthem, they had fled towards Pennsylvania. A large body of\\nmen under Captain Edmond Chambers, an old citizen and a riian\\nof well known pluck, marched towards the school house and\\nthe Kennedy farm, and at each place they found a large number\\nof Sharpe s rifles, pistols, swords, etc., with a considerable quan-\\ntity of powder, percussion caps and equipments of various kinds.\\nThey also found a great number of papers, which tended to throw\\nlight on the conspiracy, and several hundred printed copies of a\\nform of Provisional Government to be set up by Brown, onc^e he\\ngot a footing in Virginia. Among the arms were several hun-\\ndred pikes of a pe culiar form, intended for the hands of the ne-\\ngroes, who were expected to turn out at the first signal and strike\\nfor libert}^ It should have been remarked before, that Brown\\nput into the hands of some of his negro prisoners some of those\\npikes, but up to the time of the discovery of the magazine at the\\nKenedy farm, the object of this novel weapon was not generally\\nunderstood.\\nThe Governor of Virginia, Henry A. Wise, had, in the mean-\\ntime, arrived. He immediately took evei-y precaution to secure\\nliis prisoners and the State against any attempt from the many\\nallies Brown was supposed to have in the North To him Brown\\nconfessed the whole plan for liberating the slaves, and indeed\\nhe had all along communicated his intentions to his prisoiiers,\\nbut as there was no communication between them ind the other", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "^8\\nANNALS OF HARPER 8 FERRY.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2citizens till late on Monday evening, tBe people generally were,\\nas before remarked, up to that time in ignorance of his purposes.\\nGovernor Wise, who is himself a brave man, could not refrain\\nfrom expressing admiration for Brown s undaunted courage, and\\nit is said that he pronounced him honest, truthful and brave.\\nHarper s Ferry was now patrolled e\\\\ ery night by details of\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0citizens until the execution of Brown, which took place near\\nGharlestowu, December 2nd, 1859. A force of United States\\ntroops was also stationed at Harper s Ferry and gradually quiet\\nwas restored. Cook, and another Raider named Albert Hazlett,\\nwere arrested in Pennsylvania and brought back on requisitions.\\nCook and another white man named Edwin Coppic, with two\\nnegroes named Greene and Copeland, were executed on the 16th\\nof December, in the same year, and Hazlett and Stevens (both\\nwhite) met the same fate on the 16th of March, 1860.\\nBrown died with unshaken fortitude, and bitter a\u00c2\u00bb the animosi-\\nty against him was, his courage, or rather stoical indifference,\\nelicited the admiration even of his enemies. Indeed it is diflB-\\ncult at the present time to do justice to the character of this re-\\nmarkable man but, do doubt, the future historians of this coun-\\ntry, who will write wlren ihe passions that excite us have subsided,\\nor are forgotton, will class him with the Scotch Covenanters of\\nthe 17th Century, It has always struck the writer that John\\nBrown very closely resembled John Balfour, of Burly, whose\\ncharacter is so finely portrayed in Scott s Old Mortality. The\\nsame strong will and iron nerve, and the same fanaticism char-\\nacterized these two men and it must be said of both that while\\nno sane person could approve of their actions, their bitterest ene-\\nmies cannot deny a tribute of respect to their unflinchinij cou-\\nrage. The other prisoners also died bravely, and indeed it was\\na melancholy thing to see men of so much stamina lose their\\nlives in such a foolish and wicked enterprize.\\nAn attempt to escape was made by Cook and Coppic on the\\nnight before their execution. By some means they escaped from\\nthe c;ell in which they were confined, and succeeded in climbing\\nthe outer wall of the Jail, wheix the} were challenged by a citi-\\nzen, guard, who was posted outside, and their farther progress\\nprevented,. They were immediately taken back to their cell and\\nclosely guarded till mornijxg.", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "ANNA] -8 OF HAKPEk s FEKKT. 29\\nA characteristic anecdote was related by the late Mr. Camp-\\nbell, who was Sheriff of Jefferson county during the Brown\\ntroubles. It will be remembered that on the morning of the\\nRaid, Brown got breakfast for his men at Mr. Fouke s Hotel, and\\nas an equivalent restored to liberty Mr. Kemp, the bar-tender,\\nwhom he had taken prisoner. A short time before Brown s ex-\\necution, Sheriff Campbell sold some property belonging to Brown,\\nwhich was found at the Kennedy farm, and was accounting to\\nhim for it and naming some claims presented against him by\\nvarious parties with whom he had dealings. Among those claims\\nwas one by Mr. Fouke for the breakfasts before mentioned.\\nBrown was reclining on his bed, not having yet recovered from\\nhis wounds, and, no doubt, with the shadow of liis certain fate\\ndarkening his spirit. lie listened apathetically to the list of\\nclaims until that of Mr, Fouke was mentioned, when he sud-\\ndenly rose up and protested against the demand. Why, Mr.\\nCampbell, said he, I made a fair bargain with Mr. Fouke I\\nrestored him his bar-tender as pay for the refreshments referred\\nto, and I do not think it honorable of him to violate the con-\\ntract. Mr. Campbell replied Why, Mr. Brown, I wonder at\\nyou; I thought you were opposed to trading in human flesh, but\\nnow^ I find that yoc will do it like other people when it suits\\nyour convenience. A grim smile played for a moment round\\nhis firmly compressed mouth. He lay down again, quietly, and\\nremarked Well, there may be something in that too. He\\nmade no farther opposition to the claim.\\nOn the morning of his execution he bade an affectionate fare-\\nwell to his fellow captives, with the exception of Cook, whom he\\ncharged with deception. It is said that he gave to each of them\\na silver quarter of a dollar as a memento, and told them to meet\\ntheir fate courageously. He pretended not to know Hazlett at\\nall, but this was understood by all who were present to be done\\nin order to aid Hazlett, whose trial had not yet come off and who\\npretended that he knew nothing about Brown, or the Eaid on\\nHarper s Ferry. It will be remembered that he waa arrested in\\nPennsylvania some time after tlie Eaid, and, of course. ]iis de-\\nfence, if he had any, would be an alibi.\\nBrown s wife arrived at Harper s Feriy shortly before his ex-\\necution, and to her his body was delivered for burial. He wag", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 ANNALS OF HARPER S FERRY.\\nburied in the State of New York, where he had resided for some\\nyears. His wife was a very iutellio;ent woinaji, and did not ap-\\npear to sympathize with her husband s wild notions on the sub-\\nject of slavery. In conversation with a citizen of Harper s Ferry,\\nshe expressed the opinion that Brown had contemplated this or\\na similar raid for thirty years, although he never mentioned the\\nsubject to hei The bodies of Cook, Coppic, Hazlett and Stevens\\nwere also deli\\\\ ered to friends, and it is said that the two latter\\nare buried near the residence of a benevolent Quaker lady in\\nNew Jersey, who deeply sympathized with them and the cause\\nin which they suffered.\\nThe gallows on which John Brown was hung must have lieeu\\na vast fabric, and the rope that hung him as long as the Equi-\\nnoctial line, or else both had some miraculous powers of repro-\\nduction. Of the many thousands of soldiers that were from\\ntime to time stationed in Jefferson county, from the day of\\nBrown s execution till the last soldier disappeared, more than\\na year aftei- the War, almost every man had a portion of either\\nas a souvenir of his sojourn in Virginia. The writer saw pieces\\nof wood and fragments of rope, purporting to have formed\\nparts of them, enough to build and rig a 74 Gun ship. If the\\nsoldiers believed they had the genuine articles, they were as con-\\ntented as they would be if they had tlie reality, and it would be\\ncruelty to undeceive them.\\nThe names of the Raiders, as well as could be ascertained,\\nwere as follows: John Brown, Watson Brown, Oliver Brown,\\nOwen Brown, Aaron D. Stevens, Edwin Coppic, Barclay Coppic,\\nAlbert Hazlett, John E. Cook, Stuart Taylor, William Lehman,\\nWilliam Thompson, John Kagi, Charles P. Tydd, Oliver Ander-\\nson, Jeremiah Anderson, Dolph Thompson, Dangeriield Newby,\\nShields Oreene, John Copeland and Lewis Leary, of whom the\\nfour last were negroes or mulattoes.\\nJolm Brown was fifty-nine years old, about five feet eleven\\ninches in height, large boned and muscular, but not fleshy. He\\ngave indications of having in his youth possessed great physical\\nstrength. His hair had been a dark brown, but at this period it\\nwas gray. His beard was long, and on the memorable day of\\nthe Raid it hung in snowy waves to his breast, giving to his\\naquiline features a singularly wild appearance. His eyes were", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "ANTVfAL^ OF HAKPEr s PERRY. 31\\nof H dark hazel, and burned with a peculiar light that gave\\npromise of a quick temper and daring courage. His head, as it\\nappeared to the writer, was of a conical shape, and on tiie whole,\\nhie physique well corresponded with the traits of his character.\\nHe was a native of Connecticut.\\nThere was confusion respecting the identity of his two sons,\\nWatson and Oliver. They were both mortally wounded on the\\n17th. One of them, a young man apparently about twenty-three\\nyears of age, of low stature, with fair hair and blue eyes, wa\u00c2\u00bb\\nshot in the groin and died in the course of the next night in the\\nEngine House, while the party had still possession of it. Et is\\nsaid that he suffered terrible agony, and called on his companions\\nto put him out of pain by sliooting him. His father, however,\\nmanifested no feeling on the occasion beyond remarking that\\nhe must have patience, that he was dying in a good cause., and\\nthat he should meet his fate like a brave man. The other was\\na tall man, al out six feet in height, with very black hair. Ho\\nalso, as above stated, was wounded in the skirmish oi the L7th,\\nand he died next morning after tlie Marines had got pO Ssession\\nof the Engine House. He was one of the two men who were\\nwounded from the Gault House. When he died his father\\nwas a prisoner and badly wounded. On learning that one of his\\nmen had just died, he sent out to enquire if it was his son., and\\non being informed that it was, he manifested the same stoicism,\\nand made the same, or a similar remark, as on the death of the\\nother son. As above remarked, there is a doubt as to which of\\nthese men was Watson and which Oliver.\\nOwen Brown was one of those detailed to operate in Maryland.\\nHe was not in the fray, })ut made his escape and was never cap-\\ntured. We cannot, therefore, give a description of his personal\\nappearance.\\nAaron D. Stevens was a remarkably line lootdng young man\\nof about thirty. He was about five feet ten inches in height,\\nheavily built and of great symmetry of form. His hair was\\nblack, and his eyes of dark hazel had a very penetrating glance.\\nHe was said to be a desperate character, and for some reason\\nthere was greater animosity felt towards him than any of the\\nothers, except old Brown and Cook. He received several woandls\\nin the skirmish, and it was thought he could not survive them.", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32 ANNALS OF HARPEK s FERRY.\\nIn conBequence of those injuries he was one of the last put on\\ntrial and executed. He was said to be a believer in Spiritualism.\\nHe was the one who was so badly wounded from the Gault\\nHouse, and who was taken to Fouke s Hotel.\\nEdwin Coppic was a young man aged about twenty-four years,\\nabout tive feet six inches in height, compactly built, and of a\\nflorid complexion. He was a very handsome young man, and for\\nvarious reasons great sympathy was felt for him by many. He\\nwas not wounded in the engagement, but was taken a prisoner by\\nthe Marines from the Engine House. He was said to be from\\nIowa, where his widowed mother, a pious old lady, belonging to\\nthe Society of Friends, resided. After his conviction a petition,\\nnumerously signed, was fonvarded to the Governor of Virginia,\\nrequesting executive clemency in his case. It was not successful,\\nhowever, as he was executed as before mentioned. In conversa-\\ntion with a citi?\u00c2\u00abn of Harper s Ferry, who visited him in his cell,\\nhe remarked that when he left his home in Iowa, he had no in-\\ntention of entering on any expedition like the one against Har-\\nper s FeiTy, but he confessed that his object was to induce slaves\\nto leave their masters, and to aid them to escape.\\nOf Barclay Coppic little is known beyond the fact of his being\\nEdwin s brother. He was witli Owen Brown and Cook on the\\nMaryland side and was never captured. It is said that he was\\nkilled some yeare ago in Missoun by a Rail Road accident.\\nAlbert Hazlett, of Pennsylvania, was a man about five feet\\neleven inches in height, raw boned and muscular. His hair was\\nred and his eyes were of a muddy brown, and of a very \\\\m pleas-\\nant expression. He had high cheek bones, and had lost one tooth\\nin front of his mouth. He was very roughly dressed on the day\\nof the raid, and in every sense of the word, he looked like an\\nugly customer. He made his escape from Hai per s Ferry on\\nthe evening of the 17th, about the time that Brown withdrew his\\nforce into the Engine House, but was afterwards captured in\\nPennsylvania and executed with Stevens. His age was about\\nthirty-tlu-ee years.\\nJohn E. Cook was a yomig man about twenty-eight years of\\nage, about five feet eight inches in height, but as he stooped a\\ngood deal, he did not appear to be so tall. He had fair hair and\\nbright blue eyes, and was, on the whole, quite an intelligent look-", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "AM.VAI.s (\u00c2\u00bbK HAltPKIJ*.- KKKRV. SH\\ning ujciii. lit had, as before remarked, I esided .several years at\\nHarper s Ferrv. and had become acquaiuted with all the jomi\u00c2\u00a3c\\nmen of the place, by whom he was regarded as a pleasant com-\\npanion, lie was respectably connected, and tlie (Tovemor of In-\\ndiana (Willard) was his brother-in-law. On his trial, Mr. Voor-\\nhees, now so prominent in the West as a pohtician, made a speech\\nfor tlie defence, which is regarded as one of his best efforts. Cook\\nwas a native of Connecticut.\\nLittle is known of Stuart Taylor, lie was a man of low sta-\\nture, with red hair. He was one of those bayoneted by the\\nMarines in the Engine House, and ht^ was dragged dead from that\\nbuilding at the same time that owu was removed.\\n(!)f Lehman, wlio was killed on a rock in the Potomac, while\\nendeavoring to escape, and Thoiupsou. who was shot at the bridge,\\nUttle is knowii. The author was never close enough to Lehman\\nto l)e able to describe his pei son. and he was so mutilated when\\nremoved for !)uvial that he had lost liis natural appearance, and the\\nauthoi- can get no reliable description of his person. Thompson\\nappeared to be about thirty yeais of age. of low stature, and\\nfair complexion.\\nJohn, or (as he is sometimes called lienrie) Kagi, is said to have\\nbeen a remarkably line looking man, with a profusion of black\\nhail and a flowing l)eard of the same color. He was about thirty\\nyears of age, tall and portly, and he did not display the same fero-\\ncity that the others exliibited. He was Secretaiy of War mider\\nBrown s Provisional CTOveniment, and held the rank of Captain.\\nHe is supposed to have been a nati^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2e of Ohio. He was shot in\\nthe Shenandoah, near the Ritle Factory.\\nOf Charles P. Tydd little is known. It is said that he used to\\npeddle books through the neigh1)orhood of Harper s Ferry before\\nthe Paid. As far as ascertained, he did not appear in the fi ay,\\nbut escaped froni Maryland to parts unknown. It is said he was\\na native of Maine.\\nRespecting the identity of Ohver and Jeremiah iVnderson there\\nis a doubt, as in the case of the ih-owiis. One of them was killed\\nby the Marines, but Avhat liecame of the other is unknown. The\\nman who was killed by the Marines was about thirty years of age,\\nof middle statm-e, with xery black hair and dark complexion. He\\nwas supposed, by some, to be a Canadian mulatto. He received", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34 ANNALS OF HARj ER 6 FERKY.\\nthree or foxir bayonet stabs in the breast and stomach, and when\\nhe was dragged oat of tJie Engine House to the flagged walk in\\nfront, lie was yet alive and vomiting gore from internal hemorrh-\\nage. While he was in this condition a farmer, from some part of\\nthe sun-ounding conntrj^ came up tx) him and viewed him in silence,\\nbat witJi a look of concentrated bitterness. Not a word did he\\nspeak, thinking, no doubt, that no amount of cursing could do\\njustice to liis feelings. He passed on to another part of the yard,\\nand did not return for a considerable time. When lie came back,\\nAnderson was still breathing, and the farmer addressed him thus\\nWell, it takas you a h-11 of a long time to die. If Anden^on\\nhad vitaHty enough left in him to hear this sootliing remark, it\\nmust have contributed greatly to smooth his way to tlie unknown\\nland of disembodied spirits. After death, also, this man Anderson\\nappeared to be marked out for special lionore and the most marked\\nattentions. Some ph^i-gicians from the Valley of Virginia picked\\nhim out as a good subject for dissection, and t}\u00e2\u0082\u00acfm. con. they got\\npossession of his body. In order to take him away handily, they\\nprocured a ban-el and tried to pack him into it. Head-fore-\\nmost they rammed him in, but they could not bend liis leg s so as\\nto get them into the barrel with the rest of his body. In their\\nendeavors to accomplish this feat, tliey strained so hard that the\\nman s lx\u00c2\u00bbnes, or sinews, fairly cracked. The praise- worthy ex-\\nertions of these sons of Galen, in the cause of science and hu-\\nmanity, elicited the warmest expressions of approval fi-om the\\nspectators. Tlie writer does not know what disposition they finally\\nmade of him.\\nDolph Thompson was quite a boy, and appeared to be an un-\\nwilling participant in the transaction. He was seen by not more\\nthan two or three citizens, and it is supposed that he escaped early\\non tlie 17th. He had fair hair and a florid complexion.\\nDangei-field Newby was a tall, well built mulatto, aged about\\nthirty years, with a pleasing face. He was shot and killed at the\\nAi-senal gate, by somebody in Mi-s. Butler s house, opposite. He\\nwas killed about 11 o clock, A, M., on Monday, and lie lay where\\nhe fell mitil the afternoon of Tuesday. I he bullet struck him in\\ntlie lower part of the neck and went down into his body the per-\\nson wlio shot him being in a position more elevated than the place\\nwhere Newby was standing. From tlie relative position of the", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "ANlfALS OF HAKPEr s FERRY. 35\\nparties, the size of the bullet, or some other circumstance, tiie\\nhole in his neck was ver^ large, and the \\\\\\\\Titer heard a paWy re-\\nmark that he beheved a smoothing iron Imd heen ahot into Mm.\\nShortly after his death a hog came rooting a])out him, apparently\\nunconscious, at fii*st, that it was a lord of creation that lay tliere.\\nThe liog after a while paused and looked attentively at the body,\\nthen snuffed around it, and finally put its snout to the man s\\nface. Suddenly the brute was seized with a panic, and with bris-\\ntles and tail erect it scampered away as if for life. This display\\nof sensibility was very creditable to that hog, but soon a drove of\\nthe same genus crowded romid the dead man, none of which ap-\\npeared to be actuatxsd by the same generous impulse as the first.\\nThe pertinacity with which death holds on to a dead African is so\\nwell known that it has become proverbial but the King of Terrors\\nhimself could not exceed those hogs in zealous attention to the de-\\nfmict Newby. They tugged away at him wdth might and main,\\nand the writer saw one run its snout into the wound and drag out\\na stringy substance of some kind, which he is not anatomist enough\\nto call by its right name. It appeared to be very long or very\\nelastic, as it reached f ull}^ three yards from the man s neck one\\nend being in the hog s mouth and the other some where in the\\nman s body. This circmnstance could not fail to improve the\\nflavor and enliance the value of pork at Harper s Ferry the next\\n^vinter.\\nSliields Greene was a negro of the blackest die small in stature\\nand veiy active in his movements. He seemed to be veiy officious,\\nflitting about fi-om place to place, and was evidently conscious of\\nhis own exti a importance in the enterprize. It is supposed that it\\nwas he wlio killed Mi-. Boerley. He was aged about thirty years.\\nJolm Copeland was a mulatto of medimn size and about twenty-\\nfive yeai-s of age. He represented himself as being from Ohio.\\nLevvds Leaiy, a mulatto, was mortally wounded at the Rifle Fac-\\ntoiy and died in a cooper s shop on the Island. He was a yoimg\\nman, but liis personal appearance cannot lie described, as he was\\nsuffering great agony, and, of coui-se, did not present his natm*al\\nappearance.\\nOne of Mr. Washington s negroes, who had been taken prisoner\\nwitli his master, the prevdous night, was dro^vned while endeavor-\\ning to escape from his captors. He was an unwilling participant", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36 A.NNALS OF HAKFEK s FEKKl\\nin the transaction, and no blame was attached to him by the people.\\nHeywood Shepherd, the first man killed by Brown s party, wa\u00c2\u00ab\\na very black negro, aged about forty- four years. He was uncom-\\nmonly tall, measuring about six feet five inches, and was a man of\\ngreat physical strength. He was free, but in order to comply with\\na law then existing in Virginia, he acknowledged Squire Beckham\\nas his master. The relation of master and slave, however, existed\\nonly in name between them, and He}^ ood accumulated a good\\ndeal of money and owned some property in Winchester. He was\\na married man and left several children.\\nIt is supposed by many that the kilhng of this niau, alone pre-\\nvented a general insurrection of tlie negroes. Many of the farm-\\ners in the neighborhood say that they noticed an unusual excite-\\nment among their slaves on the Sunday before the Kaid. If it be\\ntrue that the negroes knew anything of the intended attack, it is\\nprobable they were deterred from talcing a part by seeing one of\\ntheii race, the first man, sacrificed.\\nThomas Boerley, the second man killed, was a nativt. of the\\ncounty of Roscommon, in Ireland. As before remarked, he was\\na man of great physical strength and was noted for pluck. He\\nmeasm-ed about six feet, and weighed over two hundred ^wunds.\\nHe was a blunt, straight forward man in liis dealings, and was\\nvery popular on account of his love of fun. His age was about\\nforty-tln-ee years. He was married and left three children. The\\nState of Virginia granted a small pension to his widow, but the\\nWar breaking out shortly after, she never yet received it. Mr.\\nBoerley kept a store, and was in veiy comfoitable cireirnistances.\\nGeoi-ge Turner, the thutl man killed, was a veiy fine looking\\nman, aged about forty years. It is said that he was educated at\\nWest Point, but for this the wiiter has no certam authority. He\\nwas immarried and left a good deal of property\\nFountain Beckman, the fourth man killed, was, like the others,\\na tall, powerfuliy built man. His age was al oiit sixty. As before\\nmentioned, he had been for many years a magistrate of the county\\nand the accent of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road at Harper s\\nFerry. At the time of his death he was Mayor of the town. He\\nwas a widower, and two sons and a daughter survived liim. Mr.\\nBeckham was, m many respects, a remarkable man. It is said\\nthat he was tb.e boat magistrate that JeftersO U. county ever possessed.", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "ANWALS OF HAKPKK k I- TKRKY. 37\\nhis decisioHB being always given with a view to tb.e jmetioe of the\\n-asee, and, in many instances, being marked with great shrewd-\\nness and soundness of judgment. On tlie other hand he was some-\\ntimes very whimsical, and some rich scene* imed to be enacted\\nbetween him and Heywood. The Squire would sometimes give\\nunreasonable or eontmdictory orders to his servant, who never hesi-\\ntated on such occasions to refuse obedience; and it was no uncom-\\nmon thing to see Heywood starting out from the Rail Road office,\\nwith his bundle on his back, en route for Winchester, and swearing\\nthat he would never serve the Squire another day. He never\\nproceeded very far, however, before he was overt^iken by a mes-\\nsage from the Squire bringing proposals for peace, and Heywood\\nnever failed to return. strong attachment existed between these\\ntwo men through life, and in death they were not separated. Mr.\\nBeckliara s death was mourned as a public loss, for, with many\\noddities of maimer, he was a very kind hearted man and a good\\ncitizen.\\nLuke Quinu, the tifth man killed, was a private soldier in the\\nMarine service. He was a native of Ireland, and quite a young\\nman. N^othing else is known concerning him.\\nThe nine citizens confined as hostages in the Engine House were\\nMS follows Ltiwis W. Washington and John Alstadt, Planters\\nJohn E. P. Dangertield, Paymaster s (derk A. M. Ball Master\\nMachinist; Benjamin Mills, Master Armorer: .Tolm Donohoo, As-\\nsistant Agent of tlie Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road at Haq^er s\\nFerry Terence Bmn:is, a fanner residing in Washington county,\\nMaryland Israel Russell, Merchant and a Mi\\\\ Shope, of Fred-\\nerick (dty, Maryland, who happened to be at Harper s Ferry that\\nday on a business visit.\\nLewis W. Washington is a very fine looking man of about fifty\\nyears of age, with that unmistakable air that always accompanies\\na man of ti ue patrician birth and education. He is the soul of\\nhospitality, and Cook used to visit him frequently for tb.e ostensi-\\nble purpose of contending with him in pistol shooting, an accom-\\nplishment for which they were both famous. Mr. Washington, on\\nthose occasions, used to exhibit the sword, and other relics of his\\ngreat namesake and kinsman, and thus it was that Cook and hit-,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0friends gained such an intimate knowledge of Ms liousehold ar-\\nrangements, as enabled them to capture him v/ithout difficulty,", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38 ANNALS OF HARPEK k FESKY..\\nand discover where the relics were stored. Cook was always hoe-\\npitably entertained whenever he visited Mr. Washington, and the\\ningratitude manifested towards that gentleman was |)erhap6 the\\nworst f eatm-e of the whole trai^action, and not to be excused for\\nthe moral effect that the capture might be expected to secure. Mr.\\nWashington, it is said, exliibited a great deal of the dignity and\\ncalnmess wliicli characterized his illustrious kinsman, and his fellow\\ncaptives yet speak of his remarkable coolness imder the trying cir-\\n(^unstances of his situation.\\nMr. Wasliington had several narrow escapes from death while\\nin the hands of the Philistines. About the time Mr. Beckham\\nwa^ killed Erown was sitting on the engine near the Engine House\\ndoor, rifle in hand, apparently watching an oppoitmiity to make a\\ngood shot. He lingered his rifle like a person playing on a violin,\\nand Mr. Washington approached him for the purpose of inquiring if\\nhe had ever learned to play on that instrmnent. As Mr. Wasliing-\\nton came near Brown, a bullet fi-om the outside whistled irnme-\\n^Uately over the head of the latter, penetrated through the handle\\nof an axe that was suspended on the engine, and passed through\\n3Ir. Washington s beakd into the wall near him, sprinkling biick\\ndust all over liim. Brown cooEy remarked, that w^as close,\\nand Mr. Washington, postponing his intended question, moved a\\nlittle to one side, when he entered into convei*sation with Mr.\\nMills, another prisoner. Their faces were not fom* inches apart,\\nyet through this narrow passage another bullet whistled, and Mr.\\nWasliington, flnding one place as safe as another, continued Ms con-\\nversation with Mr. Mills.\\nMr. Washington at that time owned a dog of very eccentric\\nhabits and miamiable disposition. He made it a point to visit, sev-.\\neral times every day, the laborers on tlie plantation, and if there\\nwere several parties of them, he would visit each in tiuTi and eye\\nrhe negroes suspiciously, after which he would return to his bed,\\nwhich was in front of the main entrance to the house. He never\\nmade any freedom -with any person, not even with his master, who\\nf i-equently, -but in vain, tried to get liim to follow him round the\\nplantation. His morose disposition, and the jealous eye he always\\nkept on the negroes, gave rise to a behef that in him was the dis-\\ni^mbodied soul of some defunct plantation overeeer, who, with the\\njiilnig passion strong aftbk death, continued to exercise his favor-", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF HAKPEK s FFJiRY, 3^\\nite avocation. On the night of Mr. Washington s capture, how\\never, his whole nature appeared to undergo a change. Ite accom-\\npanied his master to Harper s Ferry, stuck closely to him all day\\non Monday, and when Mr, Washington was confined in the Engin\u00c2\u00a9\\nHouse, his faithful though hitherto undemonstrative dog followed Mitt\\nInto close captivity,. Brown and his men tried to eject him, and evea\\nhis master endeavored to induce him to go out, but in vain. When.\\nMr. Washington was released he lost him in the dense crowd, but\\non reaching home, on Tuesday night, he fomid tl).e metamorphosed\\noverseer waiting for him at the gate, and exhibiting signs of the\\nmost extravagant Joy at his safe return. After this the dog was\\nregarded with more favor, and many of the negroes, from that\\ntime, rejected the former tale of tmuamigration as a slander on\\nthe faitlif ul animal.\\nMr. Alstadt is a gentleman of about sixty years of age, of very\\nunassuming manners, and popular for his amiable disposition.\\nJohn E. P. Dangertield is a gentleman, of about iifty yeare of\\nage and of a delicate constitution, lie bore up very well, how-\\never, and when released by the Marines, his physical strengtli had\\nnot given way as his friends feared it Mwuld ile now resides in\\nNortli Carolina.\\nA. M. Ball was a man about forty-six years of age. He was\\nvery corpulent, but notwithstanding his great bulk, his health was\\ndehcate. He died in June, 1861, of apoplexy,\\nBenjamin Mills was a man about fifty years of age, iow in stat-\\nure, but muscular and active. He moved 8b.ortIy afterwards to\\nHarrodsbm g, Kentucky, where he had fornterly resided.\\nJohn Donohoo is quite a good looking man, of about thirty-tive\\nyears of age. He is a native of Ireland, but emigrated at a very-\\nearly age to this country. He resided many years at Harper s\\nFerry, where he was highly respected for his integrity and business\\nqualifications. He is now a merchant in some part cf Pennsylva-\\nnia or Maryland.\\nTerence Burns is a man of about forty-eight years of age. He\\nresides near the Kennedy Farm,, and unfortunately for himi, was well\\nknoAvn to Brown and his party,. On the night of the Raid, tbey\\ncalled at his house and took }nm, along with them as a prisoner.\\nHe was probably their first captive. Mr, Burns is higlily re-^pected\\nby all who know him.", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 ANNALS OV HVKPEL- s 1- KKJO\\nIsrael RuBsell if? a man of nearly sixty vears uf age. He w dn\\nfor many yeai-s a magistrate ()f Jeffei son count}-, and was ah\\\\ ays\\ngreatly respected. He now i-esides in Lo\\\\idoiin county, Virginia.\\nOf Mr. Sliope little is kncAvn at Harpers Ferry. As l\u00c2\u00bbefore re-\\nmarked, he resides in Frederick city, Maryland.\\nIt is somewhat singular that the above mentioned geutleuieii\\ndisplayed little or no vindicti\\\\ eness towards Brown. Tlie writer\\nlias frequently j-emarked, in convei sation with those men, that\\nthey invariably d velt on his extraordinary courage, and that the\\nanimosity, ^\\\\\u00e2\u0080\u00a2hich it was natural they shoidd feel on account of the\\ngi eat danger to which IJrown exposed theiu, was lu.-.t in admira-\\ntion for his daring, tliough misguided, bi-avery. ^Ii Donohoo,\\nit is said, visited Brown in prison, and very much to his credit, ex-\\nhibited to his fallen foe a generosity characteristic of the mai^\\nhimself, and the gallant nation of his biith.\\nThe history of the Bnnni E.aid should not close without notice\\nof another party who iigured some^vhat curiously in that memorable\\ntransaction. At tliat time there hved at Harper s Feny a half-witted\\nfelkn\\\\- named Jolm jSIolloy, who managed to live by getting scraps\\nof broken bread and meat from the kitchens of the people, in re-\\nturn foi- serxices rendered in can-ying -water from the town pump\\nand the rivei He was never known to sleep in a house, a doo}-\\nstep answering ail the purposes of a bed, and a store box being re-\\ngarded by him as a positive luxuiy. When drunk, (which was as\\noften as he could get whiskey enough,) he had a particular liking\\nfor a sleep on the Eail Koad track, and as a consequence was run\\nover several times by the cars, but it appeared as if nothing could\\nkill him. On one occasion the point of a cow-catcher entered\\nhis neck, and he was pushed by the engine a (considerable distance.\\nEven THIS did not kill hin\u00c2\u00bb, but seveml ugly scars remained as\\nmementoes of the adventure. Like othei-s, he was taken prisoner\\nby Brown and conlined in the Armoiy yard. About 3 o clock in\\nthe afternoon, when the alann had spread and people crowded in\\nfrom the sui-rounding country, armed with every species of weapon\\nthey could lay their hands on, John managed to escape by climh-\\ni)ig the w^all. ^Yhen he was seen on th(? wall, the citizens sup-\\nposed he w^as one of Brown s men and everybody blazed away at\\nhim. A perfect shower of bullets whistled round him, and his\\nrlothes, nevei- in the best of repair, were almost sliot off his bodv.", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "A](*KiU 3 OF HABI EES 3i1B3RJRY.\\n41\\njNo Jet* thari twenty bxilletB perforated hie clothing, biat, strange\\nto Baj, be escaped without a Bcratch, and Bucceeded in regain-\\niug Mb liberty. WJhen, after the Raid, 8trangere used to visit\\nthe fecene, John always made it a point to be about, exhibiting the\\nscars which he received from the cow-catcher, and attributing\\nthem to woundfi inflicted by Bro-wn s party. Many a dollar did\\nJohn receive on the sti-engtb of those wounds, and, no doubt, he\\nhas figured in many a toitrist s book as a hero and a martyr. His\\nescape from the bullete. of hie friends was certainly miraculous,\\nand it goes t^.* prove the truti^ of the old proverb of A fool for\\nluck, c.\\nThis is the Brown Raid, so called an invasion which may be\\nconsidered as the commencement of our unhappy Civil War. It,\\nof course, created intense excitement all over the land, and the\\nfeeling tlien aroused never entirely subsided until the election of\\nMr. Lincoln, m November, 1860, renewed the quarrel on a greater\\nscale. Thus Haa-per s Feny enjoys the distinction of having been\\nthe scene of the first act in the fearful drama, and, as will be seen\\nhereafter, it wzur the the-atrc of many another part, of the 3bneadful\\ntragedy.\\nOHAPTBPl V.\\nWhen, on the election of Mi. Lincoln, the Gulf States seceded\\nand the Legislature of Virginia called a convention of the people,\\nto consider what oourse was best to be pursued under the circum-\\nstances, Mr Barbo iir and Mr Logan Osbom were elected to the\\nconvention on the Union ticket, in Jefferson county, over Andrew\\nHiianter and William Lucas, secessionists. While in Richmond,\\nattencLtng the convention, however, Mr. Barbour is said to have\\nbeen lirawn :into the vortex of secession, through the powerful\\ninfluences broiiglit to bear by the seceesionists on the members of\\nthat body.. The ordinance of secession was passed by the con-\\nvention on ijae 17th of April, 1861, and on the following day Mr.\\nEarbop.:: made hie. appearance at Hamper s Ferry, in company with", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42\\nANN ALB OF HARPERS FERRY.\\nMi\\\\ Seddon, afterwards prominent in the government of the Con-\\nfederacy. He made a speech to the people, advising tliem to co-\\noperate -with their native State and give in their adhesion to tlie\\nnew Confederacy. This speech excited the anger of the people\\nto a high pitch, as he had received their suffi-ages on the imder-\\nfttanding tliat he was for the Union nnconditionally. A partial\\nriot took place, and the appearance of a son them soldier (a young\\nman named John Burk) on guard over the telegraph office, aroused\\nthe people to frenzy.\\nLieut. Jones with forty-two regular United States soldiers was\\nthen stationed at Harper s Ferry, a company liaving been kept\\nthere by the Government, for the protection of tlie place, since\\nthe Brown Raid. Hearing that a large force was marching from\\nthe South to take possession of tlie armory, lie made some prepa-\\nrations to defend the place, and called on the citizens for volun-\\nteers. Many responded, prominent among vehom was a gigantic\\nIrishman, named Jeremiah Donovan, wlio immediately shouldered\\na musket and stood guard at the armoiy gate. This man was\\nthe first (at least in this region) who took up arms in defence of\\nthe Government, and as will be seen shortly, he was very near\\npaying a heavy penalty for his patriotism. As before mentioned,\\na southern soldier was on guard at the telegraph office, and he\\nand Donovan were not fifty yards apart. To use a homely phrase,\\nHarper s Ferry was between hawk and buzzard, a condition in\\nwhich it remained till the war was ended, four years afterwards.\\nMr. George Koonce, a man of great activity and personal courage,\\nwas very prompt in volunteering his aid to Lieutenant Jones, and\\nthe latter put great confidence in him. With a few young men,\\nMr. Koonce advanced to meet the Virginia Militia, about two\\nthousand in number, who were inarching towards Harper s Ferry\\nfrom Charlestowii. Lie encountered and, it is said, actually\\nhalted tliem on Smallwood s Ridge, near Bolivar. At this mo-\\nment, however, news reached Mr. Koonce that Lieutenant Jones,\\nacting on orders from Washington, or under direction from Cap-\\ntain Kingsbury, who had been sent from the Capital the da\\\\- be-\\nfore, to take charge at Llarper s Ferry, had set fire to the armory\\nand arsenal, and with his men retreated towards the North. This\\nleft Mr. Koonce in a very awkward position, but he, with the few\\nunder liis ;ommand, succeeded in escaping in the darkness. Mr.", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF HARPER s FERRY. 43\\nKoonce was obliged to ieavB the piace immediate!},, aud keep\\naway nmtil the town again fell into the bands of the Grovernment\\ntroops. A thick colamn of smoke, ariaing from the direction of\\nHarper s Ferry, gave to the Confederate force information of the\\nburning, and they proceeded at double quick^ to save the ma\\nchinery in the shops and the arms in the arsenal, for tlie use of\\nthe Confederacy, Before they reached Harper s Ferry,, the citi-\\nzens had extinguished the fire in the r^hops and baved them and\\nthe machinery. The arsenal, however, wsfi totally consumed,\\nwith about fifteen thousand stand of arms there stored, a very\\nserious loss to the Confederates, who had made calculations on\\ngetting possession of them.\\nJust at 12 o clock on the nighc of April 18tii,. 1801, the Con-\\nfederate forces marched into Harper s Ferry. Poor Donovan was\\nseized and, it is said, that a rope was put round his neck by some\\nparties of southern views, for the purpose of hanging him. A\\nbetter feeling, however, prevailed, and Donti \\\\aii was permitted.\\nto move to the North and seek employment ith the Government\\nof his choice. The Virginians, into whose hands Donovan luckily\\nfell, were the most tolerant of the Confederatcc. Had he fallen\\ninto the hands of the soldiers from the Clulf States, that came on\\nin a few days, he would not have escaped so easily. These latter\\nwere near lynching Dr. Joseph E. Clegget and Mr. Solomon. V.\\nYantis, for their Union opinions. The Virginia militia were\\ncommanded by Turner Ashby, afterwards so famoiii^ for hi^ ex-\\nploits in the Valley of Virginia,.^\\nHarper s Ferr}-- now ceased for ti. time to be in the possession\\nof the Government The place was occupied for nearly two\\nmonths by the Confederates.. The splendid machinery at the\\nwork shops was taken down and transported to Fayetteville,\\nNorth Carolina, where the Confederates had established an\\narmory. While the place was occupied by the insurgents, it pre-\\nsented a scene novel at the time, but very familiar for years after.\\nWhat transpired is known to all, and has been recorded in many\\nhistories of far greater pretensions than the present. These oc-\\ncurrences belong to the history of the War rather than that of\\nHarper s Fkjsry, It ro.ay be mentioned, however, that Generail\\nHarney, of the Uiaited States Army, was seized there one night,\\non a train of the Baltim^ore a5id O hio Rail P-oad, while lie wm", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44 ANNALS OF HARPER s FERRY.\\non his way from St. Louis to Washington, and conveyed a pris-\\noner to Richmond.\\nOn the 14th of June, the Confederates blew up the Rail Road\\nbridge, burned the main armory buildings, and retreated up the\\nValley. Quiet reigned for a few days, but shortly after a con-\\nsiderable force returned and destroyed the Rifle Factory and\\nthe Shenandoah bridge.\\nOn. the -ith of July, a lively skirmish took place between Cap-\\ntain Henderson s company of Confederate Cavalry and a ]3arty\\nof the 9th New York Regiment, stationed at Sandy Hook. The\\nFederals being on the Maryland and the Confederates on the\\nVirginia side of the river, the game was at long taw, and con-\\nsequently little damage was done one man was killed on the\\nMaryland shore, and, at least, one man wounded on the Virginia\\nside. In the evening a melancholy occurrence took place, where-\\nby we lost one of our very best citizens. After the skirmish was\\nover, Mr. F. A. Roeder walked towards the Rail Road office, and\\nwhile he was sauntering about, a shot was fired from the Mary-\\nland Heights, which inflicted a mortal wound on him, of which\\nhe died in about two hours. Mr. Roeder was a German by birth,\\nbut had resided a great many years at Harpers Ferry, where he\\nwas always held in the highest estimation.\\nWhen General Patterson retreated from Charlestown, (July\\n21st) his army occupied the place for several days, and helped\\nthemselves to most of what was left in the town. Wliatever may\\nbe said of their achievements in the field, their exploits in the\\nforaging line are certainly worthy of the highest encomiums.\\nWhen the army left, quiet again reigned for a short time, till,\\non the 16tli of October, a brisk skirmish took place between a\\nsmall force under Colonel, afterwards General, Geary and a body\\nof militia under Colonel Ashby. The battle took place on Boli-\\nTar Heights, and is hence known as tlie battle of Bolivar. Both\\nsides claimed the victory, but both retreated, Geary to Maryland\\nand Ashby up the Valley. Four or five Federals lost their lives in\\nthis skirmish, but the loss of the others is unknown. In a few days\\nafter this, a party of Confederates entered the town and bunied\\nthe extensive flour mill of A. H. Herr, thereby inflicting an irre-\\nparable loss on tlie people. From this time the town was visited\\nnightly by scouts from both sides, and one morning, during the", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "A.NNALS OF {IAKPER s FKKRV. 45\\nWinter, two parties encountered each other. The Federal scouts\\nhad entered a skiff to return to Maryland, when they were fired\\non by the Confederates, and one of them, named Rohr, was\\nkilled another, named Rice, threw himself into tlie river, and by\\nhis dexterity in swimmino-, and by keeping under the cover of\\nthe boat, he managed to save his life and escape to Maryland.\\nThe killing of Rohr was the cause of another calamity to Har-\\nper s Ferry. Colonel Geary, or some of his subordinates, became\\nhighly incensed at the death of this man, who was a favorite\\nscout, and immediately sent a detachment of troops to destroy\\nthat part of the town in which the Confederates were accus-\\ntomed to conceal themselves to w^atch or annoy the Federals on\\nthe Maryland shore. This they faithfully accomplished, destroy-\\ning, by lire, the fine Hotel, and all of that portion of the town\\nbetween the armory and the Rail Road bridge. This certainly\\nmust be considered a wanton destruction of property, as the Rail\\nRoad buttresses, or even the ruins of the burnt buildings, fur-\\nnished enough of shelter for spies or sharp-shootei s.\\nAll the winter Harper s Ferry presented a scene of the utmost\\ndesolation. All the inhabitants had left, except a few old men\\nand women, who ventured to protect their homes, or who were\\neither unable or unwilling to leave the place and seek for new\\nassociations. Thus matters continued until the night of the 23nd\\nof February, 1863, when General Banks made a forward move\\nin conjunction with General Shields, who proceeded up the Yalley\\nfrom the neighborhood of Paw-Faw tunnel, on the line of the\\nBaltimore and Ohio Rail Road, between Martinsburg and Cum-\\nberland. General Banks sent a detachment across the river at\\nHarper s Ferry in advance of the main body of his troops. They\\ncrossed in skiffs, and their object was to aid in laying a Pontoon\\nbridge. With them was a man, named James Stedman, a native\\nof Harper s Ferry, who acted as guide. The night was veiy\\nstormy, blowing a gale down the Potomac, through the gorges of\\nthe Blue Ridge. Stedman and five soldiers of the 28th Penn-\\nsylvania Regiment were in one skiff, when, through the severity\\nof the gale or mismanagement, the skiff was iipset, and all six\\nw ere cast into the icy waves. They weie all drowned, and their\\nbodies were never recovered. From that time till Banks retreated\\nfrom Winchester. (May 25th, 1862,) the town was held by the", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "4v AJTWALS OF i:IAKI EK e ITISRRY.\\ni edexalfc. When Banks was pursued to the Potomac, at Wil-\\nHainsport, a portion of the Confederate forces marched towards\\nHarper s Ferry, and the garrison there, with all the citizens of\\nUnion proclivities, crossed over to Maryland. The Confederates,\\nhowever, approached no nearer than Halltown, about four miles\\nfrom Harper s Feri-y, and in a day or two retreated up the Valley.\\nThe town continiied to be the base of supplies for the armies of\\nShields, Bank? and Fremont, while they were operating against\\nJackson in the Valley, an til after the second battle of Manassas,,\\nGeneral Lee decided to invade Maryland. It was tiien under\\nthe command of Colonel Miles. He had a force, which, includ-\\ning a large number under Colonel Tom Ford, of Ohio, posted on\\nthe Maryland Heights, amounted to twelve thousand. When\\nGeneral Lee, with the main body of the Confederate army, cross-\\ned the Potomac and marched on Frederick, General Jackson,\\nwith General A. P. Hill, attacked Harper s Ferry with_ a strong\\nforce. The siege commenced on Friday, September 12th, by the\\n{Confederates opening with some batteries fi-om tiie Loudoun\\nHeights. These were replied to by the Federal batteries on the\\nMaryland Heights, which position was attacked in the rear by a\\nportion of the Confederate army, then in Maryland. The ex-\\ntreme right of the Confederate aitny and the left of the Federals,\\napproached very near to the north-eastern slope of those Heights,\\nand CoL^nel Ford was attacked by a strong body detached for\\nthat pm-pose. A desultory, though destructive musketry fire was\\nkept up all day on Saturday, September 13th, and thus Colonel\\nFord was placed, as he thought, in a very dangerous position.\\nIt is supposed that the force attacking him in the rear were\\nSouth Carolinians, as after the surrender many graves were\\nfound with head boards bearing the names of soldiers from South\\nCarolina. The bombardment of Harper s Ferry continued in the\\nmeantime, at intervals, until Colonel Ford abandoned his position\\non the Maryland Heights, and shut himself up in Hai-per s Ferry.\\nHis conduct on tliis occasion has been severely criticized, and in-\\ndeed he was cashiered for misconduct His judges, no doubt,\\nknew more of the circumstances of the case than any civillian,\\nbut the writer can vouch that he saw, on several occasions during\\nthe War, what appeared to mim to be greater mismanagement on\\nthe part of others, when nothing was said or done in condemnation.", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "ANNAl.B OK HARFEK S FERRY. 47\\nThe abandoumeiit of the Maryland Heights was, of com \u00c2\u00bbe, a\\nirtiial surrender of Harper s Ferry. On Monday morning, Sep-\\ntember 15th, therefore, the Federal Hag was lowered and the gar-\\nrison surrendered, with all their arms and stores. Colonel Miles\\nwas killed hy a shell innnediately after gi\\\\ iug the order for sur-\\nrender, and his death saved him, in all probability, from a fate\\nstill worse to a soldier. Great indignation was felt at what was\\ncalled his treason or timidity, and had he li^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ed, his conduct, no\\ndoubt, would have been the subject of a strict investigation, as in\\nthe case of Colonel Ford.\\nBefore the suri-ender, a small body of Federal Cavalry made a.\\ngallant chai ge and succeeded in making their escape, capturing\\nand destroying an ammimition train, belonging to the Confeder-\\nates, and eifecting a junction with McClellan s army, then in po-\\nsition on the Antietam.\\nAfter the surrender, General Jackson marched towards Shep\\nherdstown, and arrived at General Lee s position in time to take\\npart in the great battle of the 17th of Septemder. He left Gen-\\neral A. P. Hill in connnand at Hai-per s Ferry, and he too de-\\nparted the next day, and as ^vell as Jackson, effected a junction\\nwith Lee s main army, in time to aid in the decisive conflict.\\nThe surrender of Harper s Ferry, though a great event of the\\nWar, was not as important to the people of the place as others\\nof less national interest. There was no very hard lighting, little\\nloss of life, and no injury to the property of the citizens. While\\nthe siege w^as in progress, the battle of South Mountain was\\nfought, September 14:th, and on the 17th of the same month took\\nplace the murderous, battle of Antietam. Both battle groimds\\nare very near the town, and the thunders of artillery and the roll\\nof musketry could be distinctly heard from those famous fields.\\nWhen Lee retreated, the place was occupied by General McCleJ-\\nlan, with his whole army, until late in November, when he\\nmarched farther South. To a person standing on Camp Hil],\\n(the ridge which divides Harper s Ferry from Bolivar) on a calm,\\ndark night, during this period, nothing could exceed the beauty\\nof the scene presented by the encampments. Myriads of lights\\nand camp iires lit up the. Bolivar Heights and the intervening\\nvalley, wliile the;, Maryland Heights were equally aglow. The\\nbands of the various regiments fi-equently regaled the people", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48 A^HKAXa Olf HAUPBIiVh I fBRRY.\\nwith their music, and nothing that sight or sound coald. do to\\nstir the imagination was wanting. Wl .en (xeneral McClellan\\nproceeded South he left a strong garrison, and the place was oc-\\ncupied, without interruption,, hy the Federal army, till the sec-\\nond invasion of the North hj Generai liee, m Jnne, 1863. All\\nthis time, however, as all through the War, the roads leading\\nfrom Harper s Ferry to Leesbiirg,, Winchester. Martitisburg and\\nother places, were infested b}^ guerrillas in the CSonfederate ser-\\nvice. The moat noted of the e was a 3 outh,, aged about twenty\\nyears, and named John Mobiy.. He was a poor boy, and before\\nthe War used to drive for a negro butcher, named foe Hagan,\\nwho resided on the Loudoun side of the Shenandoah, and. used\\nto attend the Harper s Ferry market with his mea-t wagon,. Mobly,\\nat this time, was a lubberly, simple-looking boy. and the pert\\nyouths of the town used tx tease him. He gave no indication*\\nat this time of tlie daring spirit that he afterwards exhibited; on\\nthe contrary, he appeared !o be cowardly When the War broke\\nout, however, he joined a company of Confederate Cavalry raised\\nin Loudoun county, and was detailed bj^ his captain as a scout to\\nwatch the Federals at Harper s Ferry.. With this roving commis-\\nsion, he, with a few otliers, ranged the neighborhood of Neirs-\\nville and Hillsborough and sometimes came within sight of Har-\\nper s Ferry. Like Dugald D algetty, he is said, while obeying\\nthe commands of his superiors, to have kept an eye to his own\\nprivate interests. He was the terror of arm3/ sutlers and wagon\\nmasters, and he is said to have captured many rich, prises, dis-\\nplaying the most reckless daring and committing some cold-\\nblooded murders. Like other gentlemen of the road, however,\\nhe had his admirers, and many anecdotes are told of his forbear-\\nance and generosity. On the 5th of April, 1865, his career\\nended, by his being shot by a party of three soldiers, who laj.^ in\\nambush for him. His body, with the head perforated by three\\nbullets, was thrown across a horse s back, and conveyed m tri-\\numph to Harper s Ferry, where it was publicly exposed to view\\nin front of Head Quarters.\\nWhen Gen. Lee a second time invaded the North,,, on his dis-\\nastrous Gettysburg campaign, again did the place change masters;\\nand when Gen. Lee a second time retreated, the re-occupation of\\nHarper s Ferry by the Federals, waa a matter of cojirse. Again^", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "\\\\N.\\\\AI,S II.VIM EKS KEUliV. 4:9\\nOil llie -!-tli of luly, 18t)4-, were the Federals driven out l y a }M)r-\\ntioii of (ieiienil P arly s forces, who peneti-ated into Maryland,\\nand were, on the tli of tlie same month, encountered by (ieiieral\\nLew Wallace, at ]Mono( acy .1 unction, about twenty-three miles\\neast of riarpe) s Ferry, where a very sharp engagement took\\nplace, when the Federals retreated. On the -tth of July, while\\nthe Federals wei e e\\\\-a uating Harper s Ferry, and some of them\\nwere at Sandy Hook, preparing to retreat farther into Maryland,\\none of them, jmrtially intoxicated, went into the store of Mr.\\nEgan. residing at that place, and asked for some tobacco, wdiich\\nhe recei\\\\ ed. He refused, however, to pay for it, and on Mr.\\nEgan s attempt to take the tobacco from him, a scuffle ensued.\\nMr. Egan succeeded in ejecting the soldier, and shut the door to\\nkeep liim from i-e-entering. At this moment, tlie proprietors\\nonly cliild. a very interesting girl of thirteen, noticed that the\\nsoldier s was on tlie Hoor. it having fallen off in the struggle^\\nShe raised the window, held out the cap, and called the soldier\\nto take it. when the ruffian shot her dead instantly, the bullet\\nfrom his piece enterbig her moiitli and coming out at the back of\\nher liead. Tlie lamented (-olonel Mulligan, of the 23rd Illinois\\nRegiment, liappened to pass at tlie time, and had the brute put\\nunder arrest. l)ut in the confusion of tlie following night he es-\\ncaped, and was never afterwards seen in that region.\\nOn the same day, a lady from North Mountain was killed,\\nwhile standing (in High street, at a point exposed to the fire,\\nwhich was kept u]) from the Maryland Heights by the Federals.\\nA coloi ed womaii was also killed on Shenandoah street, and a\\nchild mortally and a young lady seriously wounded in Bolivar,\\nThe lady Idlled on High street and the colored woman, received\\ntheir death wounds from Minie bullets, and the Bolivar sufferers\\nwere wounded by ])ieces of a shell, which penetrated the house\\nin which they were, and exploded in the midst of a family group.\\nAnother shell i)enetrated a (xovernment house, occupied by Mr,\\nMagra sv, on Higli street, passed directly through it, and then\\npenetrated the house of Mr. Alexander Kelly, where it stopped\\nwithout explodi)ig. A young lady was in the room when this\\nunwelcome visitor intruded at Mr. Kelly s, but fortunately she\\nreceived no injury.\\nWhile the F ^ederal army was still disputing the possession O f", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50 ANNALS oy IIABPEr 6 FERRY.\\nHarper s Ferry with the Confederates, and keeping up a fire of\\nartillery and mrisketry from the Maryland Heiglite, a singular\\naccident took place in their midst. It will be remembered, that\\nthe State of Ohio, a short time before, furnished a force called\\nthe hundred day men. A portion of these were doing duty\\non the Maryland Heights, on the present occasion. They were\\nbrave, bxit, as the following will show, inexperienced soldiers.\\nA company of them were preparing dinnei*, and not having any-\\nthing else convenieiit on v/hich to l)uild thei)- fire, they procured\\nfi om an ammunition wagon several large shells, on which they\\npiled tJieir wood, which was soon in a blaze. Round the fire\\nthey all sat, each intent on watching his kettle, or sauce-pan.\\nSoon a terrific explosion look place, which sent the pots and ket-\\ntles flying o\\\\ er the tree tops, and sadder still, killed and wounded\\nquite a large number of the men. This is one instance of hun-\\ndreds, which the writer saw during the War, of incredible reck-\\nlessness produced by the excitement of the times and great as\\nthe loss of life then was, it is wonderful that it was not much\\nmore extensive. While the hundred day men were stationed\\nnear Harper s Ferry, one of th em presented himself to the com-\\nmander of the post, a grim old warrior, that had seen a hundred\\nbattles, and had the reputation of being a martinet. On being\\nasked what he wa:at.ed, he said he had a complaint to make of\\nthe commissary, who was treating liim and his companions very\\nshabbily. Why, (ieneral, said the Ohioan, would you believe\\nit we have been here ten days, and we have not had a bit of\\nbutter for our bread, nor a drop of milk for our coffee. The\\nreader may imagine the wrath of the old campaigner. It is said\\nto liave l)een something appalling, and it is related that, about\\nthat time, a figure was seen to retreat liastily from the General s\\ntent, fear and an uplifted boot gi^ ing an impetus to his flight.\\nAfter the Confederates had failed in their attempt on Wash-\\nT^/ington and retreated, again, and for tlie last/i^ime, did the Feder-\\nals get possession of the place. After the battle of Monocacy,\\nGeneral Sheridan was appointed to command in the Yalley of\\nVirginia, and Iris brilliant and successive victories over Early,\\nabout Winchester, sa-^/ed Harper s Ferry, henceforth, from its\\nacciistomed alternation of masters. During the winter of this\\nyeiiT., [1 864) several military exeeiitions took place here, and, in-", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "ANNALS Ol lIARrKl; s FEKKV. 51\\ndeed, there is no phase of War tliat was not; at sonic time,\\nexperienced ])y this people. An idea may be formed of tlie manv\\nvicissitiides the place experienced, from the fact that the Rail\\nRoad bridge was destroyed nine times, and as many times re-\\ntresseled, from June, 1861, to the end of the War. Mr. Thomas-\\nX. Ileskett, Assistant Master of Road for the Baltimore and\\nOhio Rail Road Company, snpei-intended every time its recon-\\nstniction, and it is \\\\ery creditable to him that, notwithstanding\\nthe many disadvantages under which he labored, and the hurry\\nwith which he was obliged to perform the work, no accident oc-\\ncurred to any of the thousands of Rail Road and wagon trains^\\nthat passed ov^er it during those years.\\nAt every evacuation of the place, tlie wildest excitement per-\\nvaded the town, and scenes of terror were exhibited, mingled\\nfrequently M ith laughable occurrences. Few, however, at the\\ntime could command equanimity enough to appreciate the ludi-\\n(irous sides of those pictures. A few days prior to a retreat, n\\nvague rumor of approaching danger could be heard, and imme-\\ndiate preparations would be set on foot for a skedaddle. A\\nthe enemy approached the excitement would increase, and finally\\na motley crowd of fugitives of every shade of color could be\\nseen tramping along the turnpike road to Frederick, knee-deep\\nin mud, or enveloped in dust, and stewing with heat, according\\nto the season. The most perfect Republicanism existed among\\nthem, and a practical illustration of the equality of mankind\\nwas exliibited, when a wallet, well supplied with hard tack and\\nBologna sausages, or a bottle of whiskey, conferred a better title\\nto nobility than a genealogy, that could be traced to the Nor-\\nman conquest. Uncle Jake Leilich s Hotel, in Frederick, was\\nthe head-quarters of the fugitive Harper s Ferrians on those oc-\\ncasions and assembled there, they continued to receive intelli-\\ngence from Harper s Fei-ry about the movements of the Rebs,\\nuntil the danger had passed, and the Confederates had retreated\\nup the Valley. Mr. Leilich deserves well of many a HarperV\\nFerrian, who got strapped on such occasions, and he is remem-\\nbered by man}^ with feelings of gratitude. Those retreats were\\ncalled skedaddles, a term invented at the time by some wag.\\nThe inventoi in all probability, was not aware that a similar\\nword is used in Homer s Iliad to express the same idea, and p", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52\\nAXNAJ.S (\u00c2\u00bbK HARPERS KKRIJV.\\nthe origJiiHtoi- liould at any time read those pa^ cs, or l)ecoine\\naware of the coincidence by any other means, tlie informatiou\\nwill, no doubt, afford him the liveliest satisfaction. It nnist be\\nconfessed, liowever. that the termination daddle is somewhat\\nlacking in dignity, and sucli as wonld not be tolerated foi- a mo-\\nment in Father Homer s sonorons verses. We wonld. therefore,\\nsuggest a corre(-tion in the next edition.\\nAfter the surrender of General Lee. at Appomattox, a garriso)i\\nwas left here, and for more than a year after the restoration of\\npeace, were tlie slirill notes of tlie hfe and tlie boom of the drum\\nheard on our street It may. with truth. 1)e said, that no place\\nexperienced more of the liorrors of the War than this. The hrst\\nact of the tragedy was performed on our streets, and at no time\\nwas Harper s Ferry oft the stage till the curtain fell.\\nWe will conclude this brief account of Harpers Ferry during\\nthe War, by commenting on a fact, which, althougli it max be\\naccidental, has certainly a strong signihcance for a rejecting\\nmind. Of all the Government Imildings in the armojy enclo-\\nsures l efore the AVar. tlie only one that has escaped destruction,\\nduring that fearfnl struggle, is John Brown s famous Engine\\nHouse. Of the occurrence that gave fame to this little building,\\nthere can be only one opinion that it was a foolish undertaking,\\nand an unwarrantable aggression on the so\\\\ ereignty of the State\\nof Virginia, foi- which the aggressors paid a just penalty. On the\\nother hand, it must l)e admitted, that slavery was not only an\\nevil, but a disgrace to the model Kepublic of modern times.\\nand this civilized centur Who knows, then, but that Providence\\nselected this fanatical eutluisiast, as its instrument in removing\\nthis anomalous stigma of slavery fi^om the State that boasts of\\nhaving gi^ en birth to Washington, and of containing his ashes,\\nand from the highly favored nation that can now, at least, proud-\\nly call itself the land of the Free The preservation of this\\nbuildinji is certainlv somewhat sintrular, and it takes but a small\\nstretch of imagination to prophecy, that it will be the Mecca to\\nwhich many a pilgrim of this and other lands will, in future\\nyears, journey, as to a shrine consecrated to liberty. John Brown\\nwas imprudent, and a violator of la^^-. and as before remarked,\\nhe deserved the severest punishment for his invasion of a sov-\\nereign State, and liis attempt at exciting a ser\\\\ile insurrection", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "AXXALS i)V HAKPEk s KFKKY. OS\\nlull he was /lokcsL and it iiiiist be admitted, that lie gave the\\nstrongest proof of sincerity, when he sai-i-iticed his life and the\\nlives of his children, for the cause lie ad\\\\ocated. Of course, many\\nwill dissent from this opinion, especially in the South, if, indeed,\\nany considerable number will pei-use these unpi-etending pages;\\nliut certainly all must admit, that John Brown s Raid caused a\\nrevolution, the most extraordinary in the annals of this Tlobe,\\ni\\\\n\\\\ one that showed the most unmistakable sicfn- M Providential\\ninterpositiftn.\\nHAPTER\\nsiisrcE t:e3:e -sj^j^si.\\nIn \\\\6^ l^ Mr. JJaniel -I. Vovnii;-, formerly Master Machinist at\\nthe Rifle Factorv, was sent from Washiuo-ton to take eharo e of\\nthe Ordnance at this place. In 1861, when the Confederates first\\ntook possession of Ilarpei- s Ferry, he managed to escape across\\nthe Pot\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bbmac into Maryland, although he was closely watched,\\non accoimt of his \\\\vell known Uniou pi Oclivities. Moreo\\\\er, he\\nwas regarded as a first rate mechanic, and his ser\\\\-ices wet-e eager-\\nly sought for the new onfederacy. The writei- was then em-\\nl){oyed at the Rail Road ofH(;e, alid one day Mr. oung presented\\nhimself to him, and in a whisper imparted his intention of es-\\ncaping, if possible, enquiring, at the same time, Vhat the chances\\nwere of getting smuggled off in the Rail Road cai-s. The writer\\npromised to aid him, but Mr. Young managed to escape by some\\notlier means, before a (;liance offei-ed itself on the Rail Road. In\\nmanaging tlie Ordnance, he gave satisfaction to every officer who\\ncommanded at the post, and at the close of the Wai he obtained,\\naltogethei by his own merit and the reputation he had gained, a\\ncommission of Captain in the i-egular ai-my. He was left in\\ncharge of what propeity the (Tovernment still possesses here, and\\nnever had the (.TOvernment a more faithful sei-vant, nor the peo-\\nple of Harpei- s Ferry a better friend. .Vs a matter of com-se,\\ngreat poverty has prevailed here since tlie Wai-. The only som ce\\no\\\\ revenue the people had. (the ai inoi-y was desti- \u00c2\u00bbyed. and the^", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "AJNNALS OF H.\\\\RPER FKIlltV.\\ndirest distress lias ever since been experienced. All that could\\nhe done to alleviate the sufferings of the people, Captain Young\\nlias done, and when he is removed, as he certainly must, at no\\ndistant period, he will take with him the Ionc and i-espect of thou-\\nisands of friends, and better still, the blessings of the poor.\\nLast session of Congress, a bill was passed, proWding foi* the\\n?=.ale of the Cxovernment property at Harper s Ferry. It will, no\\ndoubt, be eagerly purchased for manufacturing purposes, and\\nthen will, perhaps, commence material for another history. The\\nfuture historian may handle the subject better than the present,\\nbut unless he goes back and narrates what has been told in this\\nvolume, he will hardly have as interesting a snbjerf.\\nWith reference to the sale of the Government property, it may\\nbe remarked, that there is a suit now pending before the United\\nStates Courts, in which Mr. Jacol) Brown, of Charlestown, is\\nPlaintiff, and Captain Young, as representative of the Govern-\\niinent. Defendant. The object of the suit is to recover thirteen\\nacres of land now in possession of the Government, which tract,\\niineluding, as it does, the head of the Armory Canal, is of im-\\nmense value. On what grounds Mr. Brown founds his claim,\\nthe writer knows not, except from rumor. It is believed that\\nMr. Brown claims that the description of the land, as given in\\nthe various deeds and wills, by which the property was trans-\\nferred to Mr. Harper, from him to^other parties, and by them to\\nthe Government, does not correspond with what the Government\\nclaims. Acting on this belief, Mr, Brown, some years ago,\\nentered the portion which he now claims, and got a patent for\\nit from the Land Registrar of the State of Virginia. Some years\\nago, he had a suit with the Government for possession of another\\ntract, near the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah, in\\nwhich he was defeated. IIoav far the uncertainty, respecting\\ntlie issue of this suit, may tend to retard the sale of the Govern-\\niuent interest at this place, is not known, but it is to be hoped\\nthat the Government will soon take some step that will relieve\\nthe people from the terrible state of uncertainty in which they\\nliave been placed for several years. Many persons at Harper s\\nFerrv are anxious for a rebuildino- of the armory, while manv\\nthers prefer its being sold. All, however, of course, desire\\n-omet]itn:(; to be done, and it is to be hoped that, ere long, the", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "hum of indubtry will be heard in a place so aduiirably situated\\nfor its successful prosecution.\\nNotwithstanding the depressing circumstances of the times\\ngenerally, and of this place in particular, there are some rays of\\nlight breaking through the gloom which, it is hoped, are the pre-\\ncursors of a bright day in t^e future. In July, 1867, A, It.\\nHerr, a large manufactiiJ er, and the proprietor of what vr called\\nthe Island of Virgiuius, sold his interest at Harper s Ferry to\\nthe enterprizing firm of Childs ik McCreight, of Springfield,\\nOhio. This property is beautifully situated or tlie Shenandoah,\\nwhich bounds it on the south. On the north and east it is\\nbounded by the canal, constructed to facilitate the navigation\\nof the Shenandoah, and on the west by a waste of tb.e canal,\\ncommunicating with the river. The Island containr- tiiirteeii\\nacres, on which were, before the War, twentj^-eight neat dwell-\\nings, one flour mill, one cotton factory, one carriage factory, one\\nsaw-mill, one machine-shop, and osie foundry. It will be re-\\nmembered, that in October, 1861, shortly after the battle of Boli-\\nvar, a party of Confederates visited Harper s Ferry and destroyed\\nthe flour mill. From that time there was no business conducted\\non the Island, until the sale of tlie property to the above men-\\ntioned firm. These gentlemen, having availed themselves of the\\ntalents of Wilham F. Cochran, so well known for his thorough\\nknowledge, theoretical and practical, of machinery, immediately\\ncommenced fitting up the Cotton Factory for a flour milL A\\nlarge force of men was kept in employment for about fifteen\\nmonths, preparing the building and putting up the machinery,\\nunder the directions of Mr. Cochran. The machinery is of the\\nmost approved description, put in motion by four turbine wheels,\\nthe power being that of three hundred horses. There are ten\\nruns of burrs, which will turn out five hundred barrels of flour\\ndaily. On the whole, it is represented, by adepts in the business,\\nas a miracle of ingenuity, and it has added greatly to the already\\nwell established fame of Mr. Cochran, Messrs. Childs Mc-\\nCreight, the proprietors of this desirable property, have won for\\nthemselves golden opinions among the people of Harper s Ferry,\\nby their integrity and coui-t.eo j,s demeanor, and it is to be hoped\\nthat they will meet with the success which their enter prize de-\\nserves. Of the twenty-eight dwellings on the Island, nearly all", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "5t\u00c2\u00bb ANNALS OF HARPER S VKKin\\nare in exc Blleiit repair, and the work performed on them, a^ well\\nas on the liew ilonr mill, has given employment to many, who\\notherwise miiBt have snffered fVom extreme destitution.\\nMany other improvements ha\\\\e also heen made at Harper s\\nFerry since the close of the War, and gradnally the traces of\\nthat-fcinrii] conte.-t are disappearing. The Preshyterian hnrch\\nwas, during the War, put to the most ignoble p)urposes, the upper\\nportion being used for a guard house, and the basement for a\\nhorse stable. The \\\\ei)era])le Mr. Dutton, a gentleman of great\\npiet} and popularity, is no\\\\v in charge of that congregation, and\\nhe h^ by great exertions, succeeded in restoiing tlse l)U!lding to\\nits pristine, neat appearance.\\nThe Catholic Chui-cli Jias also been repaired, thj oug]i tbe en-\\nergy of the Iie\\\\ Ml Kain, a young clergyman of great promise,\\nwho, as well as the E.e\\\\ Mr. OTveefe, his assistant, is ery popu-\\nlar with all classes and creeds in the community. They havC\\nestablished n classical aiid mathematical school, at the head of\\nwhich is Mr. William Lynch, a very ethclent teacher. Tlie llev.\\nMr. (JTveeie, liowever, gi^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0es this school great attention, and as\\nthat gentleman is understood toha\\\\e ])een educated in Rome, and\\nto have a thorough knowledge of the Italian, as ^vell as several\\nother modern languages, the advantages this school enjoys are\\napparent, and in consetjuence, it is very well [)atroniz(xl. Through\\nthe exertions of Father Kain, a Hue bell has been purchased and\\nsuspended in the steeple, and its nmsical notes, at morning and\\nevening, sound with a sweet solemnity tlirough the lonely glens\\nof the Blue Ridge, admonishing all wlio hear them, to pause and\\nworshi]) the Great Architect of the stupendous scenery that sur-\\nrounds them.\\nThe Methodist Protestants haxe erected a new church on Camp\\nHill, which is un ler the charge of the Jlex. Mr. Stuart, a very\\namiable and talented young clergyman, who is \\\\ery popular in\\nthe commimity. Tliat denomination lost their church during\\nthe ^\\\\^ar, through the Aandalism of soldiers of both armies, and\\nthe erection of a new church was a very heavy tax on the alread}\\ndiminished resources of the congregation. They have, however,\\nsucceeded in erecting a Imilding, which adds very nnicli to the\\nappearance of the towii. and will accoiiiumdute a liirgc uuiubev\\nof w( ]vhip]HMv.", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF HARFEr s FERBT. 57\\nThe Methodist Episcopal i congregation, a:. Harper s Ferry, also\\nlost their chureli during t}ic War, and there is not a single trace\\nof it left, but as there was another church belonging to the same\\ndenouiination in Bolivar, which escaped destrnction, they have\\nnot deemed, it nece.-sai v to i-ehuild at Harpers Ferry. TJie f;on\\ngregation is undei the charge f the Rev. Mr. Baker, a gentle-\\nman of eloquence and great popularity.\\nThe LutJierar. Cliui-ch was used as an hospital dming the War.\\nIt lias l)6eii reiutxated ^ince the restoration of peace, and it is\\nnow iti excellent reytair. There n f resident minister of this\\ndenomination nt }larpe) *s Ferry.\\nSome time ag a gentleman uaioeti Storer, residing in some\\npait of Ne\\\\\\\\- England, left a bequest of a large sum of money for\\nthe endowment of a college for the education of negroes. Har-\\nper s Ferry was cJiosen as tiie site for this institution, and a char-\\nter Was obtained from tlte Legislature of West Virginia for it\\nunder the title of btorer College. The trustees purchased the\\nfarm of Mr. William Smallwood. in iJolivar, and it was supposed\\nthat thei-e the (;.;)llege would be erected. It is now understoovl\\nthat four oi the Kiest i .)vernment liouses at the place, with a large\\ntract of l;;i!(l. iiuA-e l)eeii donated by the Government to Storer\\n(.V)lleg( and the trusiees alone know wliere the site of the col-\\nlege -.\\\\iil be. The people have no objection to this institution\\nitse ii. but for some reason great dissatisfaction is felt and expres-\\nt-d uniong the (dtizens in regard to the subject. The writer does\\nnot pi opose to give any opinion about this matter, and merely\\n\\\\nentions it as a part of the history of the place. The people\\nheld a meeting some time ago, and petitioned the State Legisla-\\nture to revoke the charter, but the writer is not aware of any\\naction being taken by that body on the subject. The Rev. Mr.\\nBrackett. who is in charge of the negro schools, and is connected\\nwith the Storer ollege enterprise, is a courteous gentleman,\\nand is highly respected by the people generally. Whatever the\\ncause of the prejudice against the college, or the administration\\nof its affairs may be. it does not appes,r to affect Mr. Brackett s\\ni ERsoNAi- popularity.\\nMessrs. Matthew yiiiim, Daniel Ames and J. M. iJecaulne\\nlave erected three splendid houses since the war. The lower\\nfloors of t])e?e 5;0use are occuDied as storerooins, and tl^e upper", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "J I A K f Ji\u00c2\u00b1t h Vb, tlK V\\nas dwelliug Mr, Murtliagli Walsh has also erected a simiiai-\\nhoiBC on the site of the old and well-known Doran store, and a\\nframe Ijuilding- (put up towards the close of the war) supplies the\\nplace of the old Wager Hotel. destroyed by the Federal troops\\nin 1862. The hotel is now managed b}^ Mr. T. A. Kirwan, a\\nyoung gentleman of courteous demeanor, and the house is ery\\npopular with the traveling public. To tourists desiring to visit\\nthe place, this hotel Avill be a disideratum. These buildings add\\ngreatly to the appearance of the town, and great credit is due to\\nthe enterprizing men who erected them.\\nFrom the foregoing pages it will be seen that nature has done\\nrauch for this place, and that industry and art improved its natu-\\nral advantages till the frenzy of war was permitted to mar the\\nbenelicent designs of Providence and the labor of three-cpiarters\\nof a century. The people desire that capitalists should visit the\\nplace and judge foi* themselves, and that every well-meaning man\\nin the country should be informed of its pjjipin condition, with a\\n\u00c2\u00bbiew of bringing such a pressure on Congress as will induce them\\nto make sojjce disposition of their property at this place, and open\\ntiie way for pri\\\\ ate enterprise, if they do not choose to re-estab-\\nlish the armory. The sale of houses and lots in 1852 was made\\nwith the hojicc fide understanding that it vv as the intention of the\\nGovernment to continue the manufacture of arms at the place,\\nand although no person holds the Government responsible for the\\ndestruction of the armory, it is confidently hoped that a sense of\\nhumanity will induce Congress to spesdv action for thjf; relief\\nOF THF PKOPI.f;.", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "AlECBOTES OF HARPER\\\\S-PBRB.IANS,\\nHARD ON THE AUTHOR\\nAll men are prone to vanit} and the vn-iter of the foregoing\\nchronicles, it is to be presumed, has more or less of it, like the\\nrest of mankind. Notwithstanding this, he must admit that he\\nis no Adonis, nay, more, he is homely- His figure ii- lank, and\\nsingularly deficient in ernbotvpoint. Hi.-^ face is pale, and has too\\nmany salient points, to allow him any pretensions to beauty.\\nDuring the War, he was in the employment of the Government,\\nas forage-master. At this period, his lack of comeliness was\\natill more apparent than at present, as, in addition to his natural\\ndeficiency of good looks, he was in bad health, and \\\\eiT poorly\\ndressed the nature of his employment, precluding the possi-\\nbility of his keeping himself tidy. He used to carry a haver-\\nsack, slung around^ him, to hold his forage orders, and otli.er pa-\\npers. At the best of times lie is a little eccentric in his tippear\\nance, and with the acc ssories above mentioned, he used to impress\\nstrangers, ^enerallv, with the idea that he was an odd genius.\\nOne day he was in very bad humor, something having gone\\nwrong, as everything bid about that time.. He encountered an\\nIrishman, who thought he carried whiskey for sale in his haver-\\nsack. Pat asks: Wliat have 3.^ou got for sale in that Avallet?\\nat the same time giving him a knowing wvak.. Your historian\\nreplied peevishly I have nothing for sale bu.t myself, and if I\\ncan find anybody fool enough to hny me, he can have me at a\\nbargain. Oh! be dad, repKed Pat, you can soon find a mar-\\nket, if you are for sale, for I met a.n ould Dutchman, a while\\nago, buying up ould rags and bones. Tour historian had busi-\\nness in another quarter about that tune, and there wa.suo farther\\nconversation.\\nTHOSE WHO F^IIVE IN tS^LASS HOUSES SriOUI^D NOT\\nTHROW STONES.\\nThere was once a Superintendent at Harper B Ferry armory\\nwho professed to be a deadly enemy to whiskey drinldng, al\\nthough he could enjoy a smile himself, as well as the next", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "by ANNALS OF fTARPKK S FI-:RRY.\\nman. He, and another officer of tlie anuoi-y, agreed to send for\\na live ijjallon keg of pure Monoiigaliela. The Superintendent s\\nname was not to be known in the transaction, but the keg was to\\nbe consigned to the i ther gentleman, when tliey were to divide.\\nAbout thiiS time, one of the best mechanics in the armory got on\\na epree, which lasted several days. Tlie Superintendent, true to\\nMs professions, discharged him. Wiicn the mechanic sobered off,\\nfee presented himself to the Superintendent, at his ofhce. expres-\\nsing regret, and promising to do better in the future. The Su-\\nperintendent was inexorable, and addi-essed the culprit thus\\nMr. L you are a good mechanic, and 1 am sorry to lose\\nyoa, but 1 have made \\\\ip my mind that no driidving man shall\\nhave e-.nployment in this armory. You can, therefore, consider\\nyourself as finally dismissed. At this moment there was a\\nknock at tlie door, and, on its being opened, the gentleman to\\nwhom the consignment was made, and who was partner in the\\ntransaction, presented himself, and said aloud: Sii tlie keg has\\ncome; I paid the freight on it. and 1 sent it to your liouse. A\\nbetter feeling immediately came over the Superintendent, and\\ntarniiig to the oiiendiug inechauic, he said: Mr. L you can\\ngo to work, l.ift; you must promise to drink no more Avhiskey.\\nM. L DID go to work, but he continued to get drujik, at in-\\ntervals, until tlie day of his deatli. He did so with impunity, as\\nlong as the above mentioned Superintendent remained at Har-\\nper s Ferry, as the latter, no doul:)t, had a vi\\\\-id recollection of\\nthe affair of the keg, and did not choose to have the subject re-\\nvived.\\nA SERIES OF MISHAPS.\\nThere Ivy^d once at Harper s Ferry an (jld gentleman of very\\npeculiar Iiabits. He was very courteous, especially to the ladies,\\nunless when mucii excited by anger, when he became very abusive.\\nHe had a peculiar manner of speaking, stopping at every Avord,\\nas if at a period, so that it would appear that every woi d with\\nhim was intended for a sentence. He was very fond of his toddy,\\nand when iimder its influence, he spoke with still greater hesita-\\ntion, as if he was veiy anxious to be impressi\\\\ e, and was choosing\\nhis words with extra deliberation.\\nThere is a certain street-crossing at Harper s l*eri-y. wliidi. in", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "ANNALS OF HAIM Kr s KEKKV. ^1\\nwet weathei is always very muddy. One of the SuperintendentB,\\ntherefore, caused three or four lieavy blocks of circular stone to\\nbe placed at equal intervals across this place, for the aecommod.a\\ntion of pedestrians. One evening, the subject of this anecdote,\\npassed that way and stepped from block to block, getting across\\nwithout soiling his shoes, although the crossing was veiy muddy\\nat the time. Aftei* dark he retm ned, but having met some friends\\nin the mean time, and imbibed freely, he did not make as sure a\\nthing of it as at his iii st crossing. Being somewhat abstracted\\nfi om tlie cause abo^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2e mentioned, and it being veiy dark, instead\\n\u00c2\u00bbf stepping on the stones he stepped over, and between them.\\nArrived on the other side, he thus soliloquized I should\\nlike ver\\\\ much to know who the d 1 removed\\nthose grinding stones this evening. Immediately after he\\nran against a coav, that was straying about the streets, and his vision\\nnot being good, he feared it might be a lady. He, therefore, took\\noff his hat and apologized, by saying I humbly- -beg ^your\\n]:)a] don Madam. Not receiving any reply, he looked more\\nclosely, and discovered what he had encoimtered, wliich did not\\nimprove his temper. In a few minutes he ran against an old lady^\\nand being determined not to be fooled ^^A?^ time, he struck her\\nwith his umbrella, remarking I\u00e2\u0080\u0094 wsh people would keep\\ntheir infernal old cows off the streets. It is said, that\\nwhen he struck the old lady, he addressed to her some epithets,\\nmore forcible than elegant, and next day, when she complained to\\nhis wife of his conduct, he was obhged to make her a still more\\nhumble apology than lie had made to the cow.\\nWAS HE HIMSELF OR SOMEBODY ELSE\\nThe following anecdote may, perhaps, be familiar to some of\\nour readers. The writer saw it in print some years ago, but it was\\nnot credited to Harper s Feriy. As it is really ouj property, and\\nas it claims the right to be inserted in om* chronicles, we will pub-\\nlish it, at tlie ]-isk of offending our readei-s, by telling them a stale\\njoke.\\nSome years ago, there resided here an old chap, whom we\\nwill call Tom Brown, although that was not his real name. He\\nowned a hoi^e and cart, and used to do a good deal of hauling.\\nOne night as he was returning home, he fell adeep in his carfc*", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "62 A n[Ai.s C)r hakpbk s fekky.\\nha VTiig imbibed a little more than bis usrjal quantum. The horse\\nstood still, and some of the boys passing that way, and seeing\\nthe sitnation, concluded to play a prank on Uncle Tom. They\\ndisengaged the horse from the cart and led it to a neighboring\\nshed, leaving the cart, with Tom in it. Some time in the night\\nTom woke up, and missed the hoi-se. His intellect was somewhat\\nconf-iised l^y the potations of the day before and his subsequent\\nsleep, and the absence of the horse tended still more to mystify\\nhim. He might have accounted for the circumstance on the\\nhypothesis, that he had arrived at home the previous evening and\\nstabled his horae, without his remembering it. I\u00c2\u00bbut tlien what was\\nHE doing in the cart, and liovv- did it get to be so far fi-om home\\nAfter some time spent in profound meditation (_ n tins problem, he\\ngave it up, and in the absence of an.y better solution, concluded\\nthat he was not at all the man he supposed liimself to be, or at\\nleast he considered it doubtful. He then soliloquized Am I\\nTom Brovra, or am I not If 1 am Tom Brown, I have lost a\\nhorse, and if I am not, I have made a cart. At what time in\\nthe morning he was able to establish his own identity, is not mea-\\ntioned in the public records, but that he did so, we have ample\\ntestimony in the fact, that next day he oiffered a rev/ard for the\\ndiscovery of the pe^t-petrators of the joke.\\nA POLITICAL .lANUS.\\nSome years ago, there were two mechanics at Harper s Ferry\\nArmory one an ardent Whig and the other a staunch Demo-\\nci-at. There was an important election close at hand, and,\\nof bourse, frequent and heated arguments arose between the ad-\\nherents of the two great parties, that at tliat time contended for\\nthe handling of the public purse, ISo two had more frequent\\ndiscussions tharj^ those refeixed to, and although they were gen-\\nerally friendly enough towards each other, whenever the subject\\nof politics was started, they wei e sm-e to pitch into one another\\nimsparingiy. One morning they had a very angTy debate, and\\nparted in high dudgeon. When they stopped work for dinner,\\nthe Democrat picked up a newspaper, mth which he amused him-\\nself antil the houi- anived for resuming work. In the paper lie\\nsaw an account of a Ltisus Natiu-tE that appeared somewhere. It\\nwas ail ]nfa,nt borti with two faces,, one in front and the other at", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "ANNALS (yv hakpkk i-j;k);y. fvi\\nthe back of the head, b ke the representations of tlie (iocl Jamis\\nwe see on Koman medals. He read the account fo) se\\\\ era] who\\nwere standing near, among whom was his friend, the Wliig.\\nWhat a wonder! e.x claimed the Democrat, a child with two\\nfaces Oh said the Whig, take good care of liim, and tj^\\nto raise him, for lie ll make an excellent Locofoco/\\nDID NOT RECOGNIZE AN OLD FRIEND IN A NEW GARB.\\nThere is an old citizen at llarpei- s Feri-y, }lo has resided there\\na great many years. He is very popular, on account of his genial\\ndisposition and love of innocent fim. He once owned a very fine\\ncow, which he prized very highly, and fed regularly several times\\nin the da} Some wags concluded to play a j)rank on him, and\\none night they painted the cow all over, of a color altogether dif-\\nferent from the hue with which she was provided by i*^ature. In\\nthe inorning, as usual, he provided a tul) of slo] for his pet, bnt\\nwas astonished that she did not make hei- appearance, as she was\\nactiustomed to do, in anticipation of a good ])reakfast. Instead of\\nHIS, however, a strange cow presented herself, but was, of course,\\nrefused and driven off. She returned, and was again driven off.\\nHe started his servant to look for ins (Avn cow, but the colored\\nboy returned, after several horn s search, with no tidings of the\\nlost one. All this time the strange cow persisted in presenting\\nherself before him, until he, getting angr} picked up a stick and\\nBEAT her away, notwithstanding which, she would return. At\\nlast he turned in and gave her a severe drubbing, so severe, in-\\ndeed, that she changed color, the stick, at eveiy application, re-\\nmoving some of the paint, for it was his own cow at last. Finally\\nhe beat her into her natm-al appearance, and thus recognized her.\\nIt has been many years since this occurred. l)ut it i?; till poked\\nat him, and will be as long as he lives.\\n(lentle reader, who hast followed me through the foregoing\\npages, a word in thine ear. I feel that you and I are fiiends, and\\nthat we are connected by the strongest tie that can bind man to\\nhis fellow self-interest and a i-eciprocity of favors. You have\\npurchased iy book and replinished my purse, and J have, it is\\nhoped, added to your stock of idea;;. I will remark, that I lieartlly", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "b4 ANNALS OF HAKPKKs KKK,!-:\\nwisb Vui did act want the latter as imicii as J did Hie ionuef. Ijiit\\nIf yon did, I advise you to read my !)ook again. y any other \\\\\\\\m\\ncan find. I feel so friendly to you, that I ^vill tell yon somethuig\\nof great importaiice. There was once a city .sitnated. not uetween\\nTWO lulls, like llai i[)ers Ferry, bnt on seven. It was calle l\\nRome, and was fully as large and famous as Harper s Ferry. Lil\\nthe latter, it rose, declined and fell, and now presents a mela:\\ncholy picture of fallen grandeur. At one period of its existence\\na great writer, named Li^y, a citizen of Rome, \\\\vrote its histor\\nand the few books of his wi itings that remain, go plainly to sh*\\nthat lie did full justice to the subject. Most of his books are l(v\\nhowever, and the literati, all over the world, have for centiiri-\\nbewailed the loss. Would it not be well, tlieu. to guard agai\\nsuch a calamity in tiie case of Hai-per s Ferr}- It is liard to say\\nwhat ruthless tribe of Goths or Yandals may make n raid some\\nday and desti oy your copy of tiie vVimals: the same misfortune\\nmay befall your neighbors and posterity may l)e deprived of the\\nexquisite pleasure you have enjoyed in reading my pages. 1 would\\ncounsel you then, to indnce everybody you can. to purchase uiy\\nbook;, so that in case of invasion, thei c may be as many chauce\\nas })ossible, for its eiug transmitted tt) future generations. ut\\nyou may ask, like the Iiislunan. what has posterity done for you i\\nI will anticipate the question and reply, by asking-, what did Aor\\ndo for yom- ancestoi*s They f miiished for you a Josephus, a\\nLivy, a Gibbon, a Hume and a host of other famous historians.\\nWill you then refuse to unboni generations the t^ame boon that\\nYOU received fi-om yom* ancestoi S, and deprive them of the many\\nadvantages that a perusal of the Annals wdll be sure to afford,\\nif you will do your duty But I feel that I do you an injustice\\nby tlie mere suspicion, and if I could I ecall what T have said, I\\nwould do so cheerfully. There is such a thing as too much zeal,\\nhowever, and for the sake of hiunanity. I would suggest that yon\\nobserve a little moderation in your demands for the book. Rrint-\\ners atid Express Agents must eat and sleep, like othei people, and\\nI would be sony to leam of anybody s being worked t\u00c2\u00bbj death in\\nsupplying the demand, which I fear will be clamorous. Tliis idea\\nhaunts me, and it iis tb.e only draw-bat k to the pleasure I feel in\\nro.y anticipated triiimiph,.", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "Of.", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "0\\n^OV^\\nV**\\nv\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2J\\nA^^\\n.r\\n^*v\\nv^.\\nA\\nlo.\\nVc,-", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2969", "width": "1767", "jp2-path": "annalsofharpersf00barr_0072.jp2"}}