rock on which kagi died
When morning came around, the townspeople reacted with savagery. Brown thought taking hostages like Colonel Washington would save him. Not so; the town turned on them with drunken fury. Whenever Brown would send a man out to discuss a truce, they would shoot him, then tear him to pieces. “Militia” after “militia” — armed slave patrols liquored to the gills — poured into town and got on the hills around them and just kept shooting and shooting at them. When one of the raiders, John Henry Kagi, attempted to swim across the river, sure, they shot him. But then they kept shooting him, and shooting him. For days. They used his corpse for target practice for days.