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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.

Posting history, in reverse order

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The Queen of England and Her Family – 1-3
Editorials – 3-5
The Lounger – 5-6
Accident to the Steamship “Edinburgh” – 7-8
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, Book II, Ch VI – 8-11
The War in Italy-Montebello, Vercelli, and Como – 12-15
Mother’s First Lodger – 15-18
The Kiss in the Street – 18
The Weekly Farmer – 18-19
The Passage of the Sesia by the Piedmontese Bersaglieri – 19-20
Consequences of the War in Italy – 19
Weekly Market Summary – 21
Trumps, by George William Curtis, Ch. XXXIII-XXXIV – 21-25

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Diary of John Brown, June 27, 1859

Wrote J. Henrie that he will find a line at Chambersburg, or three Smiths and Anderson.

SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 520

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Diary of John Brown, June 29, 1859

Wrote Horace Greeley & Co., enclosing three dollars for “New York Tribune.” Gave Watson fifty dollars for P.

SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 520

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Diary of John Brown, June 30, 1859

Wrote J. Henrie to write I. Smith & Sons at Harper's Ferry, if he needs to do so.

SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 520

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John Brown [alias Isaac Smith] to John H. Kagi, June 30, 1859

CHAMBERSBURG, PENN., June 30, 1859.

JOHN HENRIE, ESQ.

DEAR SIR, — We leave here to-day for Harper's Ferry, via Hagerstown. When you get there you had best look on the hotel register for I. Smith & Sons, without making much inquiry. We shall be looking for cheap lands near the railroad in all probability. You can write I. Smith & Sons, at Harper's Ferry, should you need to do so.

Yours, in truth,

I. SMITH.

SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 526

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Edwin Morton to Franklin B. Sanborn, June 30, 1859

June 30.

News from Andover, Ohio, a week or more since, from our friend. He had received two hundred dollars more from here,1 was full of cheer, and arranging his wool business; but I do not look for a result so soon as many do.

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1 That is, from Gerrit Smith.

SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 468

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