Identifier: johnbrownhismenw00hint_0 (find matches)
Title: John Brown and his men; with some account of the roads they traveled to reach Harper's Ferry
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Hinton, Richard J. (Richard Josiah), 1830-1901
Subjects: Brown, John, 1800-1859
Publisher: New York (etc.) Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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y GeorgeHenry Hoyt. Another was received by the Lewisfamily at Springdale, Iowa, and in his exquisite fare-well letter to wife and child, penned on the morn-ing of his execution, was enclosed some stanzas ex-pressive of both affection and religious resignation.Virginia had a spasmodic generosity and allowed hisbody to be taken North by his relatives. The cowardiceand doughfacism, then too prevalent, culminated ininsulting refusals to permit public funeral servicesover the dead soldiers body. The consistory of Dr.Porters church refused to allow funeral servicestherein over Cooks body. Mr. Robert Crowley andhis wife were members of the church. So also didthe consistory of Dr. Tompkinss church (the NewEngland). A Baptist Congregation offered the useof their small chapel, but the funeral services werefinally held in Mr. Crowleys dwelling, where VirginiaCook by the coffin of her husband for the first timemet any of her relatives, He was buried in theCypress Hills Cemetery, 4;S6 JOHN BROWN.
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johx browns men: who they were. 487 to do a considerable amount of explaining for him.Richard Realf, in a letter dated from Washington ini860, responded to this spirit in words of tribute,which are gladly adopted here: You will, I amsure, he wrote, pardon me for saying that in rela-tion to 1 John Edwin Cook 1 I cannot consent to adoptas my own the sentiments with which you appear toregard him. I cannot, that is, consent to call him un-fortunate. . . . We have been friends. Permitme to say of him that his faults were such as belongto a warm, impulsive, chivalrous nature. He wasquickhearted, swift-blooded, brave unto recklessness,generous unto prodigality. We have been togetheron the stump, in the solitude of the far prairies, in thesocial circle, in the retirement of our own homes, andI never knew him other than that which I havestated. Here let it be added, that knowing Cookclosely in personal relations, and critically scanningfor years everything to be found written by or abouthim, t

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