1SGDan
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- Joined
- Dec 13, 2009
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- New Hampshire
Was reading through some of my engineer letters when I came across this.
From Timothy Hartshorn of the US Engineer Battalion writing form Sandy Hook MD on October 7th, 1862:
I was talking last night with the Post- master here, an old man about 73. He has lived here 20 years and owned or does own what is left of a good many houses in Harper's Ferry--He told me the John Brown affair was all got up by the secesh themselves to excite the slave holders South. The Abolitionists had nothing to do with it and furthermore he says John Brown is alive today and in the Southern Army, not being dead, and the body of another man was sent North (It was remarked by his friends then if you remember reading it in the papers that the body did not look like that of John Brown). The old man says a number of his near relations were in the secret and helped get up the affair --
Has anyone ever heard of this before?
From Timothy Hartshorn of the US Engineer Battalion writing form Sandy Hook MD on October 7th, 1862:
I was talking last night with the Post- master here, an old man about 73. He has lived here 20 years and owned or does own what is left of a good many houses in Harper's Ferry--He told me the John Brown affair was all got up by the secesh themselves to excite the slave holders South. The Abolitionists had nothing to do with it and furthermore he says John Brown is alive today and in the Southern Army, not being dead, and the body of another man was sent North (It was remarked by his friends then if you remember reading it in the papers that the body did not look like that of John Brown). The old man says a number of his near relations were in the secret and helped get up the affair --
Has anyone ever heard of this before?
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