The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1882-12-02
THE JOHN BROWN RAID.
Only One Man Now Living Who Participa.
ted in Thai Event---Brief Sketches Of
the Participants Therein.

tea IN Vhat EVeHt.--6r1c1 sketches Oh
the Participants Therein.
Mr.. Richard. J. Hinton, editor of the
Washington Sunday Gazette, gives a
chapter of the John Brown raid, in
view of the recent discovery of the re-
mains of Watson Brown at Martins
vile, Ind. MIR. 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, ~ 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 (N6rth
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 aboitionist, 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 a quadroon and belonging to some
Of the fugitive slave colonies in the
neighborhood of Chatham, Canada West;
Osborne Peter Anderson, bright
mulatto, from Canada, a Virginian ;
Dangerfeld Newby, from Misso; 4, one
of Browns rescued slaves Of 1858,
quite dark Shields Greene, a dark
man from Rochester, New York, IA
miliarly known as emperor" and in
trodueed to the party by Frederick
Douglas; John Copeland, of Oberlin,
Ohio; light sceaoreR and lewis
gSherrafd Eeasy.a ehF muIatto 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 q
1859. In the fight, John Henri Kagi
the most brilliant intellect of the party,
and second in command, was slain at
Halls rifle works or rather at rock in
Shenandoah river. With him fell
John Copeland, Lewis Sherrard Leary
Stewart Taylor, Jerry Anderson and
William II. 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
Oh 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
trial, was hung with Green. Aaron D
Stevens was shot several times ant
taken with a flag Of truce. With
Albert Hazlett, captured for William
Harrison, wno is still alive, Steven:
was executed. Hazlett was captured
at Chambersburg and delivered tx
Virginia. William Thompson wa:
shot on the 18th at the railroad bridge
and taken into Foulk's hotel. While
in the parlor, wounded and prisoner
armed men came iI, took him OFT
shot and threw him over the bridge
shooting him as he fell Stewart Fay
lor was killed on the 18Th by thu
United States marinzs. Dangerfielt
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 tx
Ohio, where, on the western reserve
he was guarded and protected. He is
man of Gfty-four years of age, ant
lives in the Jay Cook house (as
caretaker) at Gibraltar, sandusk,
Bay, Lake Erie, O. John E. Cook ""':ass
sent into the neighborhood OF tht
ferry to make arrests, and escaped
into Pennvlvania on the 18th, with
Owen Brown, Barclay Coppic, Albert
Hazlett and Francis J. Merriam. They
were afterward joined by Osborne r.