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To: melinda abplanalp who wrote (49618)	4/24/2000 10:46:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I might have been there, Ms Smartypants. Footnotes, eh? Ok, Emory Thomas' Robert E Lee pgs 179-183. JEB Stuart happened to be in the War Office in Washington when the Harper's Ferry reports starting coming in. The Secretary of War decided to send Lee, and the young Stuart volunteered to assist him. They went to Harper's Ferry with a company of Marines from the Washington Navy Yard led by Lt Israel Green. Brown was holed up in the firehouse at the Harper's Ferry Armory with 18 hostages. Lee armed the Marines with sledgehammers and fixed bayonets, but ordered the guns remain unloaded to protect the hostages. Stuart approached the firehouse under a flag of truce. Brown opened the door and shoved a cavalry carbine in Stuart's face. Stuart read Lee's note demanding his surrender. From inside the firehouse the voices of some of the hostage's could be heard, then one boomed out "Never mind us, fire!" Lee recognized that as Lewis Washington, a cousin of George. "The old revolutionary blood does tell", Lee remarked to himself... When the Marines rushed the firehouse, two were shot by Brown's gang. Lt Green slashed Brown's neck with his saber, and then tried to run him through but the blade struck something solid and bent. So Green proceeded to pummel Brown into unconsciousness with his saber hilt. So there, phfffft.