Sources for John Brown information, documents, and images.

Connelley, William Elsey. John Brown. Topeka: Crane & Company, 1900.

Hinton, Richard J. John Brown and His Men. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1894; Reprint New York: The Arno Press, 1968.

"John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry: An Eyewitness Account By Charles White," ed. Rayburn S. Moore, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 67 (October, 1959):387-395.

Oates, Stephen B. To Purge this Land With Blood: A biography of John Brown. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

Sanborn, F. B. Memoirs of John Brown. Concord, 1878.

Sanborn, F. B., ed. Life and Letters of John Brown. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1885.

Villard, Oswald Garrison. John Brown 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After. 1910, reprint, Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1965.

From Villard, John Brown 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After

• Picture of John Brown, frontspiece.
• John Brown's Northern Supporters, 396.
• Map of the Harper's Ferry Region, 414.
• The Kennedy Farm*, 404.
• "Fighting at the Engine House"*, 444.
• "The Storming of the Engine House"*, 452.
• Harper's Ferry Victims, 448.
• Exterior of the Jail in Charlestown, VA*, 486.

Images marked with an * were originally found in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly; I hope to get the originals.

From Hinton, John Brown and His Men

• Interior of the Jail in Charlestown, VA, 342.
• Line drawings of the following conspirators:

  Jeremiah Goldsmith Anderson, 306; Osborn Perry Anderson, 272; Oliver Brown, 53; Owen Brown, 555; Watson Brown, 303; John E. Cook, 275; John Anthony Copeland, Jr., 508; Barclay Coppoc, 539; Edwin Coppoc, 295; John Henry Kagi, 286; William H. Leeman, 236; Francis Jackson Meriam, 274; Dangerfield Newby, 290; Stewart Taylor, 257; Dauphin Thompson, 283; William Thompson, 317; Charles Plummer Tidd, 559.

Color drawing of Harper's Ferry, by Richard Schlecht. Copyright on photo of the drawing is held by Eric F. Long, PO Box 187, Gaithersburg, MD 20884, 1992.

From the National Park Service guide to John Brown's Raid, 1973.

• Photos of the Brown family, specifically, Mary Ann Brown and daughters, 4; John Brown, Jr., 5; Oliver and Martha Brown, 20; Owen Brown, 26; Watson Brown, 36.
• Conspirator photos, of: John E. Cook, Aaron D. Stevens, John H. Kagi, all 6; Edwin Coppoc, Dauphin Thompson, Charles Plummer Tidd, 22; Francis J. Meriam, Barclay Coppoc, both 26; drawing of Shields Green, 24; Dangerfield Newby, 37; William Thompson, 36; Lewis S. Leary, William H. Leeman, both 39; John A Copeland, Jeremiah G. Anderson, Stewart Taylor, all together on 42; Albert Hazlett, Osborn Perry Anderson, both 44;
• A page of pictures of the "Secret Six," p.11 (not yet separated);
• Maps, of:Harper's Ferry and Vicinity, 14; Harper's Ferry 1859, 29; wide angle, 20; Col. Lewis Washington and his home, Bellair, 28.
• Photo of Frederick Douglass, 24.
• Photos of US Army and Marine captors: Lt. Israel Green, USMC, 47; Robert E. Lee, 47; J. E. B. Stuart, 47.

From Sanborn, John Brown:

• Etching of the railroad bridge, 88.
• Etching of the enginehouse, 89.

From Moore, "Charles White":

• Picture of Virginius Island, Harper's Ferry, 386.
• Photo of Presbyterian Church, 392.
• Facsimiles of White's handrawn maps: Map A, 395; Map B, 396.

From the National Historical Society, The Image of War 1861-1865 (Garden City: Doubleday, 1981-1983).

Volume 1, "Shadows of the Storm":

• View of Harper's Ferry, looking across from the Maryland side, 44.
• Photo of the enginehouse, 45.
• Photo of the Arsenal area, 45.
• Photos of Chambersburg after the burning, repairs on a roof, both 393.

Volume 5, "The South Besieged":

• A view of Chambersburg after the burning, 324.
• The remains of the Franklin County Courthouse, 326.
• Burnt homes, 327.

From Lee A. Wallace, Jr., 5th Virginia Infantry, (Lynchburg: H. E. Howard, 1988).:

• Officers of the West Augusta Guard, 78.
• William Hanger Smith Baylor, 78.

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