JOHN BROWN AND HIS MEN -- A BRIEF PRELUDE -- CONTENTS. -- CHAPTER I.-The Man -- CHAPTER II.-Purpose and Plans -- CHAPTER III.-The Kansas Overture -- CHAPTER IV.-Shadows from Pottawatomie -- CHAPTER V.-Preparation and Change in Kansas -- CHAPTER VI.-John Brown Making Friends -- CHAPTER VII.-Reaching a Culmination -- CHAPTER VIII.-Rescue of Missouri Slaves -- CHAPTER IX.-Life and Preparation at the Kennedy Farm -- CHAPTER X.-The Order of March -- CHAPTER XI. - Rending the Fortress Wall -- CHAPTER XII.-Capture -Trial -Prison -Scaffold -- CHAPTER XIII.-As Seen by Himself, Family, Neighbors, and Friends -- CHAPTER XIV.-John Brown 's Men -Who They Were -- CHAPTER XV.-Men Who Fought and Fell, or Escaped -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. -- John Brown,1856 (New) -- John Brown,1858 -1859 (Bearded) -- Oliver Brown -- Aaron Dwight Stevens -- Albert Hazlett -- William Henry Leeman -- Steward Taylor -- Osborne Perry Anderson -- Francis Jackson Merriam -- John Edwin Cook -- Dauphin Adolphus Thompson -- John Henri Kagi -- Dangerfield Newby -- Edwin Coppoc -- Watson Brown -- Jeremiah G. Anderson -- Lewis Sherrard Leary -- William Thompson -- Plan of Charlestown Jail -- John A.Copeland -- Barclay Coppoc -- Owen Brown -- Charles Plummer Tidd -- FAC-SIMILES: -- Stanza,by Edmund Clarence Stedman -- Stanza by William D.Howells -- Stanza,by Edna Dean Proctor -- Commission of George B.Gill -- Appendix -- Index.