Dear Mary, How wonderful to have such a document survive. I love to hear about such things being found and kept for the future generations to understand the history of our families and our country. Thanks for sharing! Cuz Becky ttg-inc@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "marywinn" <marywinn@cfl.rr.com> To: <WINN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 10:00 AM Subject: [WINN] Sharing--Harpers Ferry Letter > Sharing-- > > Although this is not a Winn letter, I thought since we are sharing, some of you might enjoy this. It is a transcript of a letter that my 2nd ggf wrote to my ggf, before he married my ggm. My 2nd ggf, George L. Douglass was at Harpers Ferry and this is his account of events on Oct 19, 1859. The notations on the bottom show letter handed down to my father. I now have the letter. I shared this with some historians at Shepherd College, and it was published in a Civil War magazine called "Columbiad." The Shepherd College people told me it helped clarify several points that have been a bone of contention. An example is the men with "blackened faces". Apparently historians have argued about how many, etc. > > Any, enjoy-- > > Mary Winn Anderson