This offer was spurned by Brown, and in a few minutes Col. Lee ordered twelve Marines under Lieut. Green to attack Brown's stronghold, batter down the doors and bayonet his party, being careful not to injure the citizens or slaves that Brown had as prisoners, unless they should resist.

The attack was made at once, but Brown had so barricaded the doors from the inside with the fire engine ropes etc. , that the sledge hammers were of no avail; so Col. Lee ordered up a portion of the reserve with a ladder as a battering ram, and this knocked a hole in the door by which the assaulting party gained admission.

Up to this time Brown's fire was harmless, but as the Marines dashed through the door, one of their number was killed, but the others in a few minutes ended the contest by bayoneting the insurgents that resisted.

Lieut. Green cut down Brown with his sword, and the entire party was captured except Cook.

A party of marines under Lieut. Stewart was sent to the schoolhouse and the Kennedy farm to take charge of the munitions of war that Brown had stored there, and they were enough for a respectable campaign.

Col. Lee made an official report of the entire affair to Col. Cooper, then Adjutant General of the U. S. Army, in which he reported Brown as having said, that he intended to liberate the slaves of Virginia and the whole South, but he had been disappointed in the expected aid from the blacks and also from the. whites in the North as well as the whites in the South.

Not even the Negro men he had captured and armed, and had in his stronghold at the engine house, took any part in the battle and returned home as soon as released. The defeat of his whole purpose showed the result of a fanatic and a madman.

Col. Lee, by order of the Secretary of war, John B. Floyd, turned over to the U. S. Marshal and sheriff of Jefferson Co., Va., Brown, two white men and two Negroes. Ten white men and two Negroes in Brown's band were killed during the battle. One Negro was never accounted for, and Cook, the spy, escaped, but was afterwards captured and executed.

The insurgents killed in the battle, three white men: Mr. F . Beckham, the mayor of Harper's Ferry Mr. G. W. Turner, and private Quinn of the Marines; also a R. R. porter, and wounded eight white citizens and one marine.

Col. Lee in his report thanked Lieuts Stewart and Green and Maj. Russell for their efficient service, and enclosed a copy of the Provisional Constitution that Brown and his party had prepared for the people of the United States, while they were in Canada.

During the afternoon of the 18th, Gov. Henry A. Wise of Virginia, arrived at Harper’s Ferry, and took such precautionary measures as he thought best for the protection of Virginia and the enforcement of the laws.

Brown having been turned over to the civil authorities of Jefferson County, and the regular fall session of the circuit court meeting on the 2oth of October, only two days after Brown's. capture, he was indicted -by the grand jury for treason and murder.

He was prosecuted by Hon. Andrew Hunter of Va., who made a national reputation by the able manner in which he conducted the case.