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Francis J. Meriam

John Brown's Soldiers Section 15 of 21

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Meriam is the only one of the raiders known to have written an application letter to Brown to participate in the raid. He stayed behind at the Kennedy Farm with Owen Brown and Barclay Coppoc before escaping. During the Civil War, he was a captain in the Third South Carolina Colored Infantry. After the war, he fled to Mexico and was never seen again.