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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 20 (search)
plunged into the river, a Virginian wading after him. Leeman turned round, threw up his empty hands, and cried, Don't shoot! The Virginian fired his pistol directly in the youth's face — he was but twenty-two--and shattered his head into fragments. By this time, all the houses around the Armory buildings were held by the Virginians. Capt. Turner, who had fired the first shot in the morning, was killed by the sentinel at the Arsenal gate, as he was raising his rifle to fire. Here Dangerfield Newby, a Virginia slave, and Jim, one of Col. Washington's negroes, with a free negro, who had lived on Washington's estate, were shot dead; and Oliver Brown, another of the old man's sons, being hit by a ball, came inside of the gate, as his brother Watson had done, lay quietly down without a word, and in a few moments was dead. Mr. Beckham, mayor of the town, who came within range of the insurgents' rifles as they were exchanging volleys with the Virginians, was likewise killed. At the
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., Analytical Index. (search)
by the Tuscarora, etc., 603. National Intelligencer, The, its letter from Henry Clay, 162 to 64; on the President's call, 460; letter to, supposed to be from Gen. Scott, 549. Nebraska, the Kansas struggle, 224 to 251. Nelson, Gen. Wm., at Piketon, Ky., 616, Nelson, Judge Samuel, 252; on Dred Scott, 257. Nelson, Thos. A. R.,of Tenn., renounces the Union on his way to Congress, 555. Nevada Territory, organized by Congress, 388. Newark, N. J., pro-Slavery riots at, 126. Newby, D., killed at Harper's Ferry, 292. New Hampshire, 20; slave population in 1790; troops furnished during the Revolution, 36; abolishes Slavery, 108; State election of 1860, 326. New Jersey, slave population of; troops furnished during the Revolution, 36; Legislature favors the Missouri Restriction, 77; first Abolition Society in, 197; provides for Emancipation, 108; Republican triumph in, in 1858, 300. New Mexico, in Congress, 190 to 196; 201; President Taylor's Message in relation
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
re; he reared them in his sons. During long years of waiting and postponement, he found others; but his sons and their friends (the Thompsons) formed the nucleus of his force in all his enterprises. What services the females of his family may have rendered, it is not yet time to tell; but it is a satisfaction to think that he was repaid for his early friendship to these New York colored men, by some valuable aid from freed slaves and fugitive slaves at Harper's Ferry; especially from Dangerfield Newby, who, poor fellow! had a slave wife and nine slave children to fight for, all within thirty miles of that town. To appreciate the character of the family, it is necessary to know these things; to understand that they have all been trained from childhood on this one principle, and for this one special project; taught to believe in it as they believed in their God or their father. It has given them a wider perspective than the Adirondacks. Five years before, when they first went to
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 5: North Elba. (search)
re; he reared them in his sons. During long years of waiting and postponement, he found others; but his sons and their friends (the Thompsons) formed the nucleus of his force in all his enterprises. What services the females of his family may have rendered, it is not yet time to tell; but it is a satisfaction to think that he was repaid for his early friendship to these New York colored men, by some valuable aid from freed slaves and fugitive slaves at Harper's Ferry; especially from Dangerfield Newby, who, poor fellow! had a slave wife and nine slave children to fight for, all within thirty miles of that town. To appreciate the character of the family, it is necessary to know these things; to understand that they have all been trained from childhood on this one principle, and for this one special project; taught to believe in it as they believed in their God or their father. It has given them a wider perspective than the Adirondacks. Five years before, when they first went to
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 8: sword in hand. (search)
opened the fire in the morning, was shot dead while in the act of raising his rifle. He was killed by a sentinel at the Arsenal gate. About the same time, Dangerfield Newby, a man of color, and a native of the neighborhood, who still had a wife and nine children in slavery in the vicinity, fell dead as he was bravely fighting foalso slain at this period — as he, also, was valiantly asserting his manhood through the muzzle of a rifle. He fought like a tiger, said an eye-witness; and of Newby, another said, He fought like the very devil. Negroes can fight. A free negro, his companion, who had lived on Washington's estate, was shot for the same virtue a Taylor, and Win. Thompson. Imprisoned, and near to death, lay Lewis Leary and Stevens. Copeland was a captive. On the street lay the dead bodies of Hazlitt and Newby. In the engine house were the remains of Oliver Brown, and Dauphin Thompson; while Watson, the Captain's son, lay without hope of recovery. The only unwounded s