The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1882-11-16
TEE JOHN BROWN RAID.
SyOne Man Now Living Who Pnrticipn-
ted in That Event---Brief Sketches OF
the Participants Thcrein.

the Participants Thcrein.
Mr.. Richard J. Hinton, editor of the
Washington Sunday Gazette, gives a!
chapter of the Jol-" Brown raid, in
view of the recent discovery Of the re-
mains of Watson Brown at Martins
vile, Ind. Mr.. Hinton relates what
became of the others who were with
John Brown at Harper's Ferry:
The unknown members of the Har-
per's Ferry party were the following
persons:
John Brown, of Kansas, and North
Elba, of New York; John Henri Kagi,
of Virginia and Kansas; Aaron D. Ste
vens (known in Kansas as "Colonel
Whipple"), of Connecticut; Owen
Watson and Oliver Brown, brothers
and sons of Captain Brown; John E.
Cook, of New York and Kansas;
Charles P. Tidd, of New York and
Kansas; William Lehman, of Kansas
and Maine; William and Adolphus
Thompson, of New York (North
Elba). The former had been in Kan
sas, and they were brothers of Henry
Thompson, who was the husband of
Ruth, Captain Browns eldest daugh-
ter; Albert Hazlett, of Pennsylvania
and Kansas; Edwin and Barclay Cop
pic, brothers, Of Springdale, Cedar
county, Iowa; Stewart Taylor, of Can
ada, and Francis Jackson and Mer-
riam, son Of the abolitionist, Francis
Jackson.
These were the white men actually
present and participating. The colored
members of the party were Jeremiah
Anderson, from Canada, supposed to
be quadroon and belonging to some
of the fugitive slave colonies in the
neighborhoodo of Chatham, Canada West;
Osborne Peter Anderson, a bright
mulatto, from Canada, a Virginian !;
Dangerfeld Newly, from Missouri, one
of Browns rescued slaves of 1858,
quite dark Shields Greene, a dark
man from Rochester, New York, IA
miiarly known as emperor" and in
troduced to the party by Frederick
Douglas John Copeland, of Oberlin,
Ohio, a light colored man, and Lewis
Sherrard Leary, a light mulatto from
North Carolina. This makes twenty
two persons in all, of whom Captain
Brown was chief.
Of the party of raiders John Brown
was wounded, captured and hung at
Charleston, Virginia, December 2,
1859. In the fight, John Henri KagL
the most brilliant intellect of the party,
and second in command, was slain at
Halls rifle works or rather at rockin
Shenandoah river. With him fell
kn4Geselaaa7 LsHis- -Sherrsrd Leary,
Stewart Taylor, Jerry Anderson and
William 81. Lehman.
At the engine house, besides John
Brown, there were Watson and Oliver
Brown, Stewart Taylor and Adolphus
Thompson, Aaron D. Stevens, Shields
Green and Edwin Coppic. Of these
Oliver Brown was shot in the groin on
the night of the 18th, and died in great
agony. What became of his body no
body knows. Watson Brown was shot
on the 18th, and died after the United
States marines, under Robert E. Lee,
captured the engine-house. Edwin
Coppic and Shields Green were cap
tured, tried and hung at Charlestown,
Virginia. John Copeland was cap
tured at the rifle works, and, after a
trial, was hung with Green. Aaron D.
Stevens was shot several times and
taken with a flag of truce. With
ALBERT Hazlett, captured for William
Harrison, vino Is still alive, Stevens
was executed. Hazlett was captured
at Chambersburg and delivered to
Virginia. William Thompson was
shot on the 18th at the railroad fridge,
and taken into Foulk's hotel. While
in the parlor, wounded and prisoner,
armed men came in, took him out,
shot and threw him over the bridge,
shooting him as he fell. Stewart Tay-
lor was killed on the 18th by the
United States marines. Dangerfeld
Newly was shot at the arsenal gate.
Now, as to the balance of the party
left to guard the farm and the school
house with the arms. Owen Brown,
the elder son of Captain Brown,
escaped through Pennsylvania to
Ohio, where, on the western reserve,
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