I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done. Brown read his Bible and wrote a final letter to his wife. At 11:00 a.m. he was escorted from the county jail through a crowd of 2,000 to the gallows. The crowd included future Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, John Wilkes Booth, and Walt Whitman. Painting: The Last Moments of John Brown, by Thomas Hovenden
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