Posted on 06/25/2019 6:01:28 AM PDT by 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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I did notice the ad for the Smith & Wesson 7 shooter the first firearm produced by S&W and the first successful revolver to fire cartridges. My only question is where is the trigger?
Good question. I found some modern photos of the same or a similar pistol. The little bar extending downward where you would expect to see a trigger appears to not be one solid piece. Maybe the trigger appears when you cock the hammer.
Wrote J. Henrie that he will find a line at Chambersburg, or three Smiths and Anderson.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 520
Opaque, but suggestive!
Wrote Horace Greeley & Co., enclosing three dollars for “New York Tribune.” Gave Watson fifty dollars for P.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 520
Wrote J. Henrie to write I. Smith & Sons at Harper's Ferry, if he needs to do so.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 520
CHAMBERSBURG, PENN., June 30, 1859.
JOHN HENRIE, ESQ.
DEAR SIR, — We leave here to-day for Harper's Ferry, via Hagerstown. When you get there you had best look on the hotel register for I. Smith & Sons, without making much inquiry. We shall be looking for cheap lands near the railroad in all probability. You can write I. Smith & Sons, at Harper's Ferry, should you need to do so.
I. SMITH.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 526
June 30.
News from Andover, Ohio, a week or more since, from our friend. He had received two hundred dollars more from here,1 was full of cheer, and arranging his wool business; but I do not look for a result so soon as many do.
1 That is, from Gerrit Smith.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 468
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