The Raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry as I Saw It (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry as I Saw ItMy Dear Sir There has just been issued a small volume copyrighted, entit led., The Raid Of John Brown As I Saw It from the pen of Rev. Samuel Vanderlip Leech, D. D., of jvashington, D. Who has been a Methodist Episcopal Minister for 52 years. For this book The Maurice Engraving Company furnished the latest portrait of Captain John Brown. The edition is limited to four hundred copies. They are not sold at any store. The object of the publication is to place on the shelves of Libraries, Colleges, Universities and Historical societies, from the southern stand point, an accurate narrative of the raid, and the events associated lee was 22 years of age, was preaching close to Harper's Ferry, saw the fighting and capture and visited Brown in his prison. I was a witness of the events of the forty four days inter vening between the raid and his execution.His partisan biographers were not' in Virginia at that time.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.