Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-06-17
Mementoes of the War.

Mementoes of the War.
John Browns soul goes marching
on" and seems destined to until the
end of American history. While rum
maging through an attic the other day
Judge Rufus G. Fairbanks came across
some evidence from company E Of
Midway and a reference to the John
Brown affair not previously published
The letter is dated Charlestown, Va,
March 9, 1862, and is as follows:
Friend Calvin: As you like to hear
from me. no doubt. l now take this
opportunity to drop you a few lines
Our troops are in this town and COM
pany E is quartered in the court house
and 1 now write this letter in the very
room where John Brown received his
sentence of death.
Enclosed you will find one of the
many letters found in the county
clerks office and bond of rebel sol
der, and you think what you will of
it 1t was only one of the same sort
which was found in the office of the
Country club.
Il am well and hearty, and we boys
are getting tired of waiting for brush
with the rebels. Company E went out
the other day with one Indian COM
pany and got 123 barrels of -four from
the rebels and came home from it.
but the rebel pickets were thick as
grasshoppers in the hay time, but they
ran like thunder when they see US
fellows. Answer soon.
GA A b.
''P. S: I did not know but you
would like a keepsake of the John
Brown affair. so l send in this letter
a small brass plate l took from the
Jury door in the court house also a
sample letter. "A. A. b.
The sample letter is as follows:
ITO the Clerk of Court-Dear Sir:
1 have wrote you before. but 1 now
take the liberty to write again. If
John Brown be injured he shall have
vengeance. BY the gods of war, he
shall have vengeance. He may not
live to see it, but he shall have it,
sooner or later
He may be hung, but vengeance
he shall have. Houses and barns shall
be burned, and Gov. Wise shall have
his neck rung rooner or later, and
when he does he shall be put in mind
of it, and before he dies l shall tell
him what he dies for. I shall be hap
pay to die in such a cause, and so
shall John Brown
please tell the people that it may
not be right away they may look fo-
me, for / shall come upon them IN
awares. Remember what I have said
This is the instrument l shall use"
"a pen drawing of a pistol.)
Here is another letter of local inter-
est:
3+CULPEPPER, Va. Aug. IA, 1862.
@sMr. Calvin Fairbanks:
Dear Sir-I am we'll and have a
pretty hard time of it so far. Passed
through without trouble. How do
things go with you Please give us all
the news you know. We had a battle
on Saturday, but we were not in the
fighting front of the field, but were
close enough to have shell scatter
among us so we had to skedaddle
George H Ide and Herman Spar
row were killed and seventeen wound
ed Tom Casey, Hutch and Fitzsim-
mons and Warren Coon are likely to
lose their arms Bert Clark is
wounded in the thigh. Jim May is
wounded Dave Mock and Sid Allen
are wounded in the hand with buck
shot Sam Matthews leg is broke
bad. Charles Whitney was hit with a
spent ball. John Coombs is here
My respects to all your folks
Send us nine recruits if you can.
Write right on Respectfully yours.
AARON BROWN. CUSHING. NELL,
ADAMS, OSGOOD. BATES. PICK
ERING. BERT. WILEY & CO.
Direct to I'd regiment, M V. NJ.
care of Capt. Quincy. Col Cordon's
regiment, Washington. d. C"-Boston
Herald