Report: The Select Committee of the Senate Appointed to Inquire into the Late Invasion and Seizure of the Public Property at Harper's Ferry

James Murray Mason; Jacob Collamer; United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion.

Government Printing Office; United States Senate, 1860

[The Official Senate account of John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry]  Bound in publisher's black cloth, with eagle imprint. Solid binding and cover. A few stains to cover and light edge wear at spine ends. 71, 255, [1] pages. Rep. com. / 36th Cong., 1st sess. Senate, no. 278.  Early signature and stamp of Richard H. Dorsey (of Maryland).   This report was published in the summer of 1860. Contains the entire account of John Brown's raid, with testimony from eye-witnesses.   

From the Coale-Sappington family of Libertytown, Maryland, by descent from J. M. Coale. James Coale (1805-1882) was a prominent attorney from Frederick County, MD who had been a Brigadier General in the 9th Brigade, Maryland Militia before the war. Coale was the President of C&O Canal and a member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1852-1862). Coale notably wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln protesting the imprisonment of members of the Maryland legislature during the Civil War.