A voice from Harper's Ferry; a narrative of events at Harper's Ferry

by Osborne P. Anderson

Osawatomie Brown!

And the bold two thousand citizens ran off and left the town.

Then was riding and railroading and expressing here and thither!

And the Martinsburg Sharpshooters, and the Charlestown Volunteers,

And the Shepherdstown and Winchester Militia hastened whither

Old Brown was said to muster his ten thousand grenadiers!

General Brown,

Osawatomie Brown!

Behind whose rampant banner all the North was pouring down.

But at last, ’tis said, some prisoners escaped from Old Brown’s durance,