{"id":960,"date":"2010-02-08T13:01:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T18:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=960"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:56:14","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:56:14","slug":"vmi-cadets-john-brown%e2%80%99s-execution-%e2%80%93-dec-1859","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/02\/08\/vmi-cadets-john-brown%e2%80%99s-execution-%e2%80%93-dec-1859\/","title":{"rendered":"VMI Cadets &amp; John Brown\u2019s Execution \u2013 Dec. 1859"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmi.edu\/archives.aspx?id=4907\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-959\" style=\"border: 3px solid black\" title=\"vmi\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/02\/vmi.jpg\" alt=\"vmi\" width=\"240\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a> The Virginia Military Institute has a number of interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmi.edu\/archives.aspx?id=17073\" target=\"_blank\">digital collections<\/a> related to the Civil War era, including one that focuses on the school\u2019s involvement in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmi.edu\/archives.aspx?id=4907\" target=\"_blank\">John Brown\u2019s execution<\/a>. After Brown\u2019s raid on Harpers Ferry in October 1859, VMI Superintendent Francis H. Smith wrote Virginia Governor Henry Wise and offered to send some of the cadets to Charles Town, Virginia to provide extra security for the execution. After the cadets arrived in late November 1859, their commanding officer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmi.edu\/archives.aspx?id=8173\" target=\"_blank\">reminded them<\/a> that he \u201cexpected\u2026[everyone] to abstain from impropriety which could by possibility impair the standing of the corps.\u201d This collection includes Superintendent Smith\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmi.edu\/archives.aspx?id=8191\" target=\"_blank\">letters to Gov. Wise<\/a>, Smith\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmi.edu\/archives.aspx?id=8187\" target=\"_blank\">report <\/a>on the deployment, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmi.edu\/archives.aspx?id=8173\" target=\"_blank\">orders issued<\/a> to the cadets, and eyewitness accounts from VMI Prof. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmi.edu\/archives.aspx?id=4919\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas J. Jackson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmi.edu\/archives.aspx?id=8183\" target=\"_blank\">John T. L. Preston<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virginia Military Institute has a number of interesting digital collections related to the Civil War era, including one that focuses on the school\u2019s involvement in John Brown\u2019s execution. After Brown\u2019s raid on Harpers Ferry in October 1859, VMI Superintendent Francis H. Smith wrote Virginia Governor Henry Wise and offered to send some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,156,172],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-images","category-letters-diaries","tag-slavery-abolition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}