John Brown's Futile Defense
A bitter fight ensued in which, one by one, Brown's men fell dead around him. "Brown was the coldest and firmest man I ever saw in defying danger and death," wrote Lewis Washington, one of the besieged who survived. "With one son dead by his side, and another shot through, he felt the pulse of his dying son with one hand and held his rifle with the other, and commanded his men with the utmost composure, encouraging them to be firm and to sell their lives as dearly as they could."
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