[11] History declares that a colleague of Brooks did thus stand, to prevent any one’s coming to Sumner’s assistance. About the pistols, I am not sure. [12] Sketch of John Albion Andrew by Eben F. Stone. [13] _Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Struggle._ By Julia Ward Howe. [14] _Reminiscences_ by Julia Ward Howe. [15] _Ibid._ [16] _Ibid._ [17] From _Journals and Letters of Samuel Gridley Howe_. Dana, Estes & Co. [18] _Reminiscences._ [19] _Ibid._ [20] _Ibid._ [21] _Ibid._ [22] See Chap. ii, page 33. [23] _Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Struggle._ [24] _Reminiscences_, 1899. [25] In the reprint of the “Battle Hymn,” made in England for the use of the soldiers during the present war, this discarded verse has, through some misunderstanding, been included. [26] See _Julia Ward Howe_, Vol. II, Chap. xi. [27] This account of the day in Libby Prison is compiled from the _Washington Star_ and from the _Life of Chaplain McCabe_. [28] _Life of Chaplain McCabe._ [29] _Ibid._ [30] _Reminiscences_ by Julia Ward Howe. [31] _Julia Ward Howe._ By Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott. [32] _Life of Julia Ward Howe._ [33] See Chapter IX. [34] In the later editions of the novel another scene is substituted for this. [35] _Life of Chaplain McCabe_--“the singing chaplain.” [36] _Julia Ward Howe._ Houghton, Mifflin & Co. [37] Mr. Howells writes in his _Literary Boston Thirty Years Ago_: “I heard Mrs. Howe speak in public and it seemed to me that she made one of the best speeches I had ever heard.” [38] _Reminiscences_, p. 261. [39] _Ibid._, p. 258. [40] Samuel Gridley Howe, Jr., who died in May, 1863, aged three and a half years. [41] _George Fox Digged Out of His Burrowe._ [42] “Proposalls”--I here quote Roger Williams’ spelling. [43] William Cullen Bryant’s “The Song of Marion’s Men.” TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. Archaic or alternate spelling has been retained from the original.