The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-10-29
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light, and then discharged. The watch
: man who was to relieve Williamson at
Q midnight found the bridge lights all out,
and was Immediately seized. Supposing
IL an ottempt at robbery. he broke away,
and his pursuers stumbling over him, he
escaped.
The next appearance of the insurrec
2 tlonists was at the house of Colonel Lewis
Was hington, large farmer and slave own
er, living about four miles from the Ferry.
A party headed by Cook proceeded there,
and rousing Col. Washington, told him
he was their prisoner. They also seized
all the slaves near the house, and took a
carriage horse and large wagon with two
horses. When Col. Washington saw
Cook, he Immediately recognized him as
man who had called upon him some months
previous, and to whom he had exhibited
some valuable arms in his possession, in
Guiding an antique sword presented by
Frederick the Great to George Washing
ton, and pair of pistols presented by La
fayette to Washington, both being heir
looms in the family. Before leaving, Cook
wanted Col. Washington to engage in
trial of skill at shooting, and exhibited con-
siderable certainty as marksman When
he made the visit on Sunday night, he al
luded to his previous visit, and regretted
the necessity which made it his duty to ar
rest Col. Washington. He, however, took
advantage of the knowledge he had obtain
ed by his former visit to carry off all the
valuable collection of arms, which the own
er did not recover until after the final de-
feat of the insurectionsts.
From Col. Washington's he proceeded,
with him as prisoner in the carriage and
twelve OF his negroes in the wagon. to the
house of Mr.. Allstadt, another large farmer
on the same road. Mr. Allstadt and his
son, lad of sixteen, were taken prisoners,
and all their negroes within reach forced to
join the movement. He then returned to
the armory at the Ferry.
| All these movements seem to have been
made without exciting the slightest alarm
IN town, nor did the detention of Captain
Phelps train at the upper end of town at
tract attention. 1t was not until the town
had thoroughly walked up, and found the
bridge guarded by armed men and guard
stationed at all the avenues, that the peo-
pie saw that they were prisoners. A panic
aRRfaT g tS hav fora @ms9aatsy ensued and
who were forced to john to from five to six
hundred. In the meantime, number of
workmen, not knowing anything of what
had occurred, entered the armory, and
were successfully taken prisoner, until at
one time they had not less than sixty men
confined in the armory. Among those thus
entrapped were Armistead Ball, chief
draughtsman of the armory; Benjamin
Mills, master of the armory, and j. E. P.
Dangerfeld, paymaster's clerk. These
three gentlemen were imprisoned in the
engine house, which afterwards became the
chief fortress of the insurgents, and were
not relesed until after the final assault.
The workmen were imprisoned in large
building further down the yard, and were
rescued by a brilliont Zouave dash made
by the railroad company's men, who came
down from Martinsburg.
This was the condition of things at day
light, about which time Capt. Cook, with
two white men, accompanied by thirty
slaves, and taking with them Col. Wash
ington's large wagon, went over the bridge,
and struck up the mountain road toward
Pennsylvania.
1t was then believed that the large wag-
on was used to carry away the Paymas-
ter's safe, containing $4,000 government
funds, and also that it was filled with
Sharps rifles, taken out to supply other
bands in the mountains, who were to come
down upon Harper's Ferry in overwhelm-
ing force. These suggestions proved un-
true, as neither money nor arms were dis
turbed As day advanced, and the news
spread around, and people came into the
Ferry, the first demonstrations of resist
ance we're made to the insurrectionists A
general warfare commenced, chiefly led on
by man named Chambers, whose house
commanded the armory yard. A colored
man named Hayward, a railroad porter,
was shot early in the morning, for refusing
to Join in the movement.
The next man shot was Joseph Burlev,
a citizen of the Ferry. He was shot while
standing in his own door. The insurrec-
tionists, by this time, finding disposition
to resist them, had nearly all withdrawn
within the armory grounds, leaving only
guard on the bridge.
About this time Samuel P. Young, Esq,
was shot dead. He was coming into town
on horseback, carrying gun, when he was
shot from the arrnory, receiving a wound
of which he died during the day. He was
a graduate of West Point, and greatly re-
spected in the neighborhood for his high
character and noble qualities.
! At about noons.the Charlestown troops,
under command of Col. Robert w Bayler,
crossed the Susquehanna River some dis
tence up, and marched down the Maryland
! side to the mouth of the bridge. Firing
{ volley, they made gallant dash across the
, bridge, clearing it of the insurrectionists,
, who retreated rapidly down toward the ar
mory. In this movement of the insurrec-
tionists, a man named VIM. Thompson was
i taken prisoner.
2 The Shepherdstown troops next arrived,
9 marching down the Shenandoah side, and
!, joining the Charlestown forces at the bridge