 | Charles Morris - United States - 1912 - 430 pages
...Colonel Washington said that Brown was the coolest man he ever saw in defying death and danger. \Vith one son dead by his side, and another shot through,...he felt the pulse of his dying son with one hand, held his rifle with the other, and commanded his men with the utmost composure, encouraging them to... | |
 | Ohio - 1921 - 1314 pages
...when he was done with it. And Col. Washington says that he, Brown, was the coolest and firmest man he ever saw in defying danger and death. With one son...and to sell their lives as dearly as they could." A correspondent who related incidents that occurred at the Charlestown jail where many persons visited... | |
 | Ohio - 1921 - 590 pages
...when he was done with it. And Col. Washington says that he, Brown, was the coolest and firmest man he ever saw in defying danger and death. With one son...and to sell their lives as dearly as they could." A correspondent who related incidents that occurred at the Charlestown jail where many persons visited... | |
 | Chicago Historical Society - Chicago (Ill.) - 1922 - 256 pages
...said, "Brown was the coolest and firmest man I ever saw in defying danger and death. With one son dead and another shot through, he felt the pulse of his...and commanded his men with the utmost composure." A humaneness was shown to prisoners that was unknown to Brown in the Kansas Massacres. Instead of wreaking... | |
 | West Virginia - 1926 - 152 pages
...house, testified that in the supreme moment of the attack "John Brown was the coolest and firmest man I ever saw in defying danger and death. With one son...of his dying son with one hand and held his rifle by the other, and commanded his men with the utmost composure, encouraging them to be firm and sell... | |
 | Walter Gaston Shotwell - United States - 1923 - 418 pages
...one son dead at his side and another shot through, he felt the pulse of the dying son with one hand, held his rifle with the other, and commanded his men...utmost composure, encouraging them to be firm and sell their lives as dearly as possible. Later, in talking with this prisoner, Brown told him he had... | |
 | Charles Burleigh Galbreath - Biography - 1925 - 844 pages
...he was done with it. And Colonel Washington says that he, Brown, was the coolest -and firmest man he ever saw in defying danger and death. With one son...be firm and to sell their lives as dearly as they could.46 On Wednesday, October 19, John Brown, Stevens, Green and Edwin Coppoc were taken to Charlestown... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...one son dead by his side, ind another shot through, he felt the pulse of Lis dying son with one hand, held his rifle with the other, and commanded his men with the ntmost composure, encouraging them to be firm, and to sell their lives as deorfr as possible." Conversing... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 260 pages
...too, who survive, are like him.... Colonel Washington says that he was the coolest and firmest man he ever saw in defying danger and death. With one son...encouraging them to be firm, and to sell their lives as dear as they could. Of the ihree white prisoners. Brown, Stevens, and Coppoc, it was hard to say which... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - History - 2012 - 372 pages
...possible. Colonel Lewis W. Washington, the most prominent of Brown's hostages, reported afterwards, "With one son dead by his side, and another shot through,...and commanded his men with the utmost composure." In captivity, he remained cool and dignified in the immediate hours and days of his recovery from his... | |
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but firm, truthful, and intelligent. His men, too, who survive, are like him.... Colonel Washington says that he was the coolest and firmest man he ever saw in defying danger and death. With one son dead by his side, and another shot through, he felt... 
