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Osborne Anderson, the only black raider to survive, returned to Canada and penned "A Voice From Harpers Ferry" in 1860. "John Brown.. dug the mine and laid the train which will eventually dissolve the union between Freedom and Slavery," he wrote. Anderson survived a stint in the Union Army in 1864, but died of consumption in Washington, DC eight years later. Any hope of finding his unmarked grave ended when the Harmony Cemetery was moved.
[Harmony Cemetery is the mostly black cemetery that was originally located near what is now the New York Avenue Metro station. When that area was redeveloped in the 1950s, the cemetery was moved to Largo Maryland. 37,000 remains were disinterred and moved but many records had been lost.] |