Research Catalog

Title

A voice from Harper's Ferry : a narrative of events at Harper's Ferry : with incidents prior and subsequent to its capture by Captain Brown and his men / by Osborne P. Anderson, one of the number.

Author

Anderson, Osborne P. (Osborne Perry), 1830-1872.

Publication

Boston : Printed for the author, 1861.

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Details

Description

72 p.; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) > History > John Brown's Raid, 1859
• Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) > History > John Brown's Raid, 1859 > Poetry
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Anderson, Osborne P (Osborne Perry), 1830-1872
• Brown, John, 1800-1859 > Poetry

Genre/Form

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• In printed paper wrappers.
• Poems and verse about John Brown and the Harper's Ferry rain, p. [63]-72.

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
• Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time
• Howes, W. U.S.iana, 1650-1950 (1962 edition)

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on verso of upper wrapper "A.A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Preface -- ch. 1. The idea and its exponents ; John Brown another Moses -- ch. 2. Preliminaries to insurrection ; What may be told and what not ; John Brown's first visit to Chatham ; Some of the secrets from the "carpet-bag" -- ch. 3. The work going bravely on ; Those commissions ; John H. Kagi ; A little cloud ; "Judas" Forbes ; Etc. -- ch. 4. The way clear ; Active preparations ; Kennedy farm ; Emigrants from the south ; Correspondence ; The agent -- ch. 5. More correspondence ; My journey to the Ferry ; A glance at the family -- ch. 6. Life at Kennedy farm -- ch. 7. Captain Brown and J.H. Kagi go to Philadelphia ; F.J. Merriam, J. Copeland and S. Leary arrive ; Matters precipitated by indiscretion -- ch. 8. Council meetings ; Orders given ; The charge ; Etc. -- ch. 9. The eleven orders given by Captain Brown to his men before setting out for the Ferry -- ch. 10. The capture of Harper's Ferry ; Col. A.D. Stevens and party sally out to the plantations ; What we saw, heard, did, etc. -- ch. 11. The events of Monday, Oct. 17 ; Arming the slaves ; Terror in the slaveholding camp ; Important losses to our party ; The fate of Kagi ; Prisoners accumulate ; Workmen at the Kennedy farm ; Etc. -- ch. 12. Reception to the troops ; They retreat to the bridge ; A prisoner ; Death of Dangerfield Newby ; William Thompson ; The mountains alive ; Flag of truce ; The engine house taken -- ch. 13. The capture of Captain John Brown at the Engine House -- ch. 14. Setting forth reasons why O.P. Anderson and A. Hazlett escaped from the arsenal, instead of remaining, when they had nothing to do ; Took a prisoner, and what resulted to them, and to this narrative, therefrom ; A pursuit, when somebody got killed, and other bodies wounded -- ch. 15. The encounter at the rifle factory -- ch. 16. Our escape from Virginia ; Hazlett breaks down from fatigue and hunger ; Narrow escape in Pennsylvania -- ch. 17. A word or two more about Albert Hazlett -- ch. 18. Capt. Owen Brown, Charles P. Tidd, Barclay Coppic, F.J. Merriam, John E. Cook -- ch. 19. The behavior of the slaves ; Captain Brown's opinion -- [Appendix] How old John Brown took Harper's Ferry, a ballad for the times ; John Brown of Osawatomie / by G.D. Whitmore ; The Virginia scaffold ; "Old John Brown" / by Rev. E.H. Sears ; Dirge sung at a meeting in Concord, Mass., Dec. 2, 1859.

Call Number

IXZ p.v. 12, no. 1

LCCN

05034829

OCLC

3211764

Author

Anderson, Osborne P. (Osborne Perry), 1830-1872.

Title

A voice from Harper's Ferry : a narrative of events at Harper's Ferry : with incidents prior and subsequent to its capture by Captain Brown and his men / by Osborne P. Anderson, one of the number.

Imprint

Boston : Printed for the author, 1861.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 576

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 1414

Howes, W. U.S.iana, 1650-1950 (1962 edition), A234

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 973.68-A (accession no. H472624) inscribed: in ink on verso of upper wrapper "A.A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Research Call Number

IXZ p.v. 12, no. 1

IIR p.v. 23, no. 6

Sc Rare 973.68-A (Anderson, O. Voice from Harper's Ferry)