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Daguerreotype of Samuel Burdette, G.C. Towbridge, and Henry Kinney (1856)


Samuel Swifin Burdette (OC prep. 1853-56, college 1856-57), G.C. Towbridge (citizen of the Kansas Territory), and Henry Payson Kinney (OC Class of 1859). These three men, filled with the spirit of abolitionism, joined John Brown during the conflict in "Bleeding Kansas."

Daguerreotype, May 1856

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Bust of John Brown (1870)

Daguerreotype of Samuel Burdette, G.C. Towbridge, and Henry Kinney, who were involved in Bleeding Kansas (1856)

Letter home by John A. Copeland (1859)

Photograph of Lewis S. Leary, Harpers Ferry participant (c.1850s)

"A Journey to Virginia in December, 1859," A Thursday Lecture by James Monroe (1898), p. 158-59.
 
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