Francis Jackson Meriam

Francis Jackson Meriam (sometimes misspelled Merriam) was an American abolitionist, born on November 17, 1837 in Framingham, Massachusetts, and died on November 28, 1865 in New York City.

Biography

In October 1859 he indirectly witnessed the raid on Harpers Ferry led by John Brown. He remained at the Kennedy Farm in Maryland, "to guard the arms and ammunition stored on the premises, until it should be time to move them."[1] Once he learned the raid turned badly, he managed to escape. Captain in the Union Army in the Third South Carolina Colored Infantry during the Civil War, he was wounded in the leg during an engagement under Grant.[2]

Notes

Keeler, Ralph (March 1874). "Owen Brown's Escape From Harper's Ferry". Atlantic Monthly: 342–365.
Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910), p.685.

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown's raiders	Osborne Perry Anderson John Brown Owen Brown (son) Watson Brown John Anthony Copeland Jr. Barclay Coppock Edwin Coppock Shields Green John Henry Kagi Lewis Sheridan Leary Francis Jackson Meriam Dangerfield Newby Aaron Dwight Stevens
Other individuals	John Wilkes Booth Owen Brown (father) John Brown, Jr. James Buchanan John E.P. Daingerfield Israel Greene Thomas Wentworth Higginson Samuel Gridley Howe George Henry Hoyt Andrew Hunter Stonewall Jackson Robert E. Lee James M. Mason Richard Parker Theodore Parker Richard Realf James Redpath Franklin Benjamin Sanborn Secret Six Heyward Shepherd Gerrit Smith Lysander Spooner George Luther Stearns George H. Steuart J. E. B. Stuart Lewis Washington Walt Whitman Henry A. Wise
Locations	Allstadt House and Ordinary B & O Railroad Potomac River Crossing Charles Town, West Virginia Gibson-Todd House Harpers Ferry Armory Harpers Ferry, West Virginia Historic District John Brown's Fort Kennedy Farm Sandy Hook, Maryland Winchester, Virginia
Afterwards	Battle Hymn of the Republic Burning of Winchester Medical College Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Heyward Shepherd monument John Brown (biography) John Brown Farm State Historic Site John Brown House (Akron, Ohio) John Brown Museum John Brown Tannery Site John Brown's Body (poem) John Brown's Body (song) John Brown's last speech John Brown's Provisional Constitution The Last Days of John Brown A Plea for Captain John Brown Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown Tragic Prelude Virginia v. John Brown
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