EXTRAORDINARY EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT OF JOHN BROWN’S RAID AT HARPER’S FERRY
EXTRAORDINARY EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT OF JOHN BROWN’S RAID AT HARPER’S FERRY
Chambers, Jennie. THE TRUTH ABOUT JOHN BROWN BY AN EYE-WITNESS. Printed wraps, 15 pgs.
JENNIE CHAMBERS as a small girl witnessed John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. She wrote in extraordinary detail about the incident and included names of people involved, wounded, killed and many details of the raid. Her article was originally published in Harpers Magazine in 1902.
Jennie Chambers : “There has never been for me a day like that of October 17, 1859, when I saw what I afterwards knew was to go down in history as the John Brown Raid.”
Young Jennie was a heroine, an amateur artist and author whose collections, including day-books, letters and other papers relating to her family are housed at Duke University.