[Homer_J_Simpson]

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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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Marshal MacMahon, Duke of Magenta – 2, 4
Accident on the Michigan Southern Line – 3-5
Editorials – 5-6
Correspondence – 6
The Lounger – 6-7
The Emperor Napoleon at the Battle of Magenta – 8-9
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, Book II, Ch X-XI – 9-11
Fire-Works at New York on the Fourth – 12-13
One Year – 13-15
The Weekly Farmer – 15-16
Battle at the Mulino Bridge – 16-17
Trumps, by George William Curtis, Ch. XXXIX-XL – 18-21
Mrs. Columbia and Her Hired Man, Lewis Cass – 22
Not a Bad Notion – 22
The City Milk Business – 23

[Homer_J_Simpson]

John Brown Jr. [alias John Smith] to John Brown, July 18, 1859

ASHTABULA, ASHTABULA COUNTY, OHIO, Monday, July 18, 1859.

DEAR FATHER, — Yours, dated at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, July 5, and mailed at Troy, New York, July 7, and also yours of the 8th, with enclosed drafts for one hundred dollars, I received in due season; am here to-day to get drafts cashed. Have now got all my business so arranged that I can devote my time, for the present, entirely to any business you may see fit to intrust me; shall immediately ship your freight, as you directed, most probably by canal, from Hartstown (formerly Hart's Cross Roads, Crawford County), to the river at Rochester, Pennsylvania (formerly Beaver), thence by railroad via Pittsburg, etc., as you directed. Shall hold myself in readiness to go north on any business you choose to direct or confide in my hands. All well; have two or three letters from [New England], which I will forward to J. H. [Kagi].

In haste, your affectionate son,
JOHN SMITH.

SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 534

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John Henry Kagi to John Brown, July 18, 1859

[CHAMBERSBURG, PA.], July 18.

I wrote to Tidd one week ago to-day, several days before receiving your letter directing mo to do so, and enclosing letter to H. Lindsley, which I forwarded by first mail. None of your things have yet arrived. The railroad from Harrisburg here does no freight business itself, that all being done by a number of forwarding houses, which run private freight cars. I have requested each of these (there are six or eight of them) to give me notice of the arrival of anything for you.

SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 533

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from July 9 (reply #3.)

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Diary of John Brown, July 22, 1859

Wrote John, enclosing draft for $100, with instructions. Also wrote Watson some instructions. Also John Henrie.

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

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John Brown [alias Isaac Smith] to his Family, July 22, 1859

CHAMBERSBURG, PENN., July 22, 1859.

DEAR FRIENDS, ALL, — Oliver, Martha, and Anne all got on safe on Saturday of the week they set out. If W. and D. set out in ten days or a week after getting this, they will be quite in time. All well. When you write, direct to I. Smith & Sons, Chambersburg, Penn.

Your friend,
ISAAC SMITH.

SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 530

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John Henry Kagi to John Brown, July 22, 1859

CHAMBERSBURG, Friday, July 22.

I received the within, and another for Oliver, to-day. I thought best not to send the other; it is from his wife. There are other reasons, which I need not-name now. Have here no other letters from any one.

J. HENRIE.

SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 533

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[M Kehoe]

A hundred dollars back then was a lot of money.

I hear you can get a Colt 45 and holster for $20, new.

5.56mm