Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-06-09

| church and stayed there till night.
The next morning Col. Robert E. Lee
/ stoImed the engine-house and took
John Brown and some of his men pris-
| oners. Knowing that your father
| would be in great danger if he Went
| down town, started TO buy provl-
sions, and at the corner of Shenan-
doah and High streets stepped into
| Mr.. Burlys house, where, to my hor
| ror, found the dead body of Mr.
| Burly, who had yentured out to ascey-
| tain the cause of the trouble, when a
negro shot him. Across the street IN
| Mr.. Moore's house, | saw the body OF
| Samuel P. Young, who had come into
town on horseback, carrying a gun,
and was shot from the armory. Mr.
Young was a graduate of West Point
and highly respected.
On leaving the house | was joined
by an old schoolmate. Mrs Armand
| Barnhart, who kept boarding house
at Sandy Hook. We walked but a
| few steps when We came across the
! uCou IOi III VI q ACSIo ~ Ing III TIC
street He was the one who had shot
| Burly. We crowded our way through
| the excited throng to the fort
There lay three OF Browns men.
| My companion recognized old John
| Brown in an instant as one who had
boarded with her and had left short
time since, she did not know where.
| Outside of the engine-hOuse was Wat
son Brown, breathing his last. l shall
never forget his look, and the wild
moving of the body from side to side.
1t was raining hard, and we could
but pity him. A little further on we
found John Browns handsome son
Oliver nearly dead. He had shot at
an armorer through the gate, who re-
turned the fire with deadly result. He
ran into the fort and fired again be-
fore he fell. Although only six years
old, you probably remember seeing
the negro in the gutter, with his neck
cut open by a ball shot from a win
dow overhead
| also saw Coppic, Stevens and 9TH
ers; but judge of my surprise in see
ing old Brown,-a man who had lived
on the mountain opposite Mr. Unsils.
had met him in the market-hOuse-
He went by the name of Smith. /
| was well acquainted with Cook. The
negro, Hayward Shepard, was a por-
ter for Fountain Beckham, and once
| belonged to mothers cousin, Miss
Harding. Shepard had bought himself
and wife from his master. He was
killed because he refused to give up
the keys to Mr. Beckham's Office, and
his master was also shot.
Your uncle, Capt Edmund Cham
bers took a company to DR. Kennedy's
farm and captured Browns pixies.
gums and other implements OF war,
| Capt Chambers was afterwad ar
rested for commanding company of
| men, taken to Winchester, tried for
'inveterate nnionism'' and released.
He was afterwards a member of the
legislature and is now mayor of Har-
! perS Ferry. He met a company OF
| Browns men at the bridge crossing
the CANAL at the fireworks, but re-
! fused to let them pass Some time
/ previous he had removed the guns to
the second story of tine armoTy ON ac-
count of a freshet, and they would
have all been taken by Brown had
| Capt Chambers given up the bridge.
He was probably known by many of
the negroes, or they would not have
! stopped for him alone Your Aunt
JAIME Augwr WAS TERRIBLY distressed the
1 first day, and kept walking back and
forth from our house to hers. Mrs.
Villains met her on the corner of the
street and said, Don't cry, Mrs Or
gan, Lieut. Jones will come with his
mareners (meaning marines) ana
'sperse the JohnBBrown men in every
/ correction"
After the insuITeetion had been put
down, the people returned to their
several vOcations, although not feel
ing at ease as long as Cook was still
at large, for we did not know but he
would come and burn the town, it be-
ing believed that Brown intended to
do so.
| About three weeks later | heard
someone ON the next street making a
good deal of noise but | could not un-
derstand what he was saying. He
| was on horseback. The people were
| running to and fro wildly. I'm a
short time your father came in and
said that the man came from Mary
| land side and reported that Cook, with
a large company of men, was coming
| down the mountain, intending to fire
the town and kill the inhabitants. Mr..
Gompf started for the armory, as thew
were giving out guns and he wanted
| to get one to defend his family. We
| expected him back in few minutes.
as he requested me to stay where
was until his return This was at )
O'Clock p. m. He did not return at G..
when the citizens formed themselves