Herman Melville's poem "The Portent" describes this man's "streaming beard" and calls him the "meteor of the war." Lydia Marie Child wrote a poem about this man "and the Colored Child," depicting his kiss of an African-American child also shown in a Thomas Hovenden painting of this man on his way to his hanging. Russell Banks's novel Cloudsplitter uses this figure's son Owen to narrate his father'
Herman Melville's poem "The Portent" describes this man's "streaming beard" and calls him the "meteor of the war." Lydia Marie Child wrote a poem about this man "and the Colored Child," depicting his kiss of an African-American child also shown in a Thomas Hovenden painting of this man on his way to his hanging. Russell Banks's novel Cloudsplitter uses this figure's son Owen to narrate his father's killing of five people at Pottawottamie Creek in Kansas. FTP a 19th-century marching song describes what abolitionist's body "a mouldrin' in the grave" after his execution for taking the arsenal at Harper's Ferry?
Herman Melville's poem "The Portent" describes this man's "streaming beard" and calls him the "meteor of the war."