rs Ferry. During most of Brown's adult years he wandered from job to job, but in the 1850's he was in command of the local Free-Soil militia in Kansas. Within a year Brown had to retaliate because proslavery forces sacked the town of Lawrence. Brown, four of his sons, and two other people killed five helpless settlers in May of 1856 in the Pottawatomie River Country. He took full responsibility even though he wasn't caught. In 1859 Brown gathered 21 men and occupied the federal weapons. The next day when Lee's army arrived, ten of Brown's men were killed. Brown was arrested and charged with treason. William Tecumseh Sherman William Sherman was undisciplined and graduated sixth in his class at West Point in 1840. During the Mexican War he won honors for excellent service. Sherman rejoined the army at the beginning of the Civil War and was in command of an army at the First Battle of Bull Run. At the Battle of Shiloh, he was in charge of a division in Ulysses Grant's army. The confederate army made a surprise attack and almost defeated Sherman. He became in command of about 100,000 men after Grant became general in Chief. After a long series of attacks, Sherman captured Atlanta in September 1864. Sherman was an expert in planning long marches. In late 1864 he spread out his men 50 miles wide and attacked the Confederacy on the unprotected Georgia countryside. It resulted in the capture of Savannah. In 1881 Sherman established the famous school at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and he died in 1891. Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Maryland in 1817. In 1838 he obtained seaman's papers from a free black and escaped to New Bedford. In 1841 he joined the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. With Douglass's great speeches, people didn't believe that he used to be a slave. Douglass wrote a book called Life and Times of Frederick Douglass to tell people about his life when he was a s...
