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John H. Kagi

John Brown's Soldiers Section 12 of 21

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Brown’s second-in-command printed copies of Brown’s constitution at a print shop he'd set up in Canada. Before the raid, he tried to talk Brown into moving the fight to the hills of Maryland, but Brown refused. On the long day of October 17, he was shot and killed while trying to cross the Shenandoah River.

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