| Existing comment:
Dangerfield Newby abandoned his position on the Maryland side of the Potomac River bridge when local militia attacked. The first of Brown's men to die, he was shot and killed before he could reach his comrades in the armory. Someone took Harriet Newby's letters from her husband's pocket before enraged townspeople mutilated his body and dumped the corpse in nearby Hog Alley. |