John Brown and his Sons in the Engine House, Harpers Ferry, October 17, 1859

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John Brown and his Sons in the Engine House, Harpers Ferry, October 17, 1859
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Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 27, 2008.
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"With one son dead by his side, and another dying, he felt the pulse of his dying son with one hand and held his rifle with the other."
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James Redpath, The Public Life of Capt. John Brown (Boston, MA: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860), 261.
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