An abolitionist writes from the courthouse where John Brown was sentenced to die. Captain Alfred Dart of the 25th Pennsylvania, a committed abolitionist, sat down to write home from the very chair where Judge Richard Parker had condemned John Brown to the gallows less than two years earlier. He wrote about the US Army encamped where John Brown had been hanged after his attempt to overthrow slavery in the South in 1859. Read the full letter.
Letters from War: 1861 | A Carbondale abolitionist writes from the courthouse where John Brown was sentenced to death
