John Brown Jr War date ALS
(John) and transmittal envelope. The son of John Brown, John Jr. In 1855 John Jr
sent an urgent letter to his father asking for arms to fight the border
ruffians. Brown
did not join his father and brothers in the Pottawatomie
Massacre in Franklin County, the brutal killing of five
proslavery settlers. He was captured by Captain H. C. Pate, commander of a
proslavery militia, in connection with the murders. He was turned over to
federal authority, Captain Thomas J. Wood. He was beaten by the soldiers and
suffered a mental breakdown before he was taken to Paola to join his brother Jason
under armed guard.
Their father,
John Brown, plotted a rescue. His troops overtook proslavery men in the Battle of Black Jack near Palmyra on June
2, 1856. The elder Brown captured Pate and his men, provisions, horses, mules,
and equipment. He agreed to release the prisoners in exchange for his sons. A
proslavery court in Lecompton charged John Brown, Jr., with high treason
because he was a free-state politician. He was finally released from prison in
September. When the war broke out he joined the 7th Kansas Cav.
Leavenworth city,Kansas
Thursday, June 15, 1862
My Loved Wife,
I have this moment got yours of the 28th.
All in a hurry this morning as a boat for St. Louis has just come and is off in
a few minutes -It will take me about five days to Chicago including one Sunday
- say two days there then, one perhaps at Cleveland when I will be home as fast
as I can - Everything is waiting and I must say goodbye
your own John
John Brown, Jr
Residence
Dorset OH; 40 years old. He was discharged for disability on 5/27/1862 born 7/25/1821 died 5/1/1885 |
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