In the Senate of the United States. ...The Select Committee of the Senate on the Harper's Ferry Invasion. Cover title: Harper's Ferry Invasion. 36th Congress, 1st Session, Senate, Rep. Com. No 278. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1860. 

8vo, 256 pages. Original brown cloth with gilt spine title. FIRST EDITION. 

INSCRIBED BY HANNIBAL HAMLIN TO FRONT FREE END PAPER: "Compliments of Vise [sic] Pres / H. Hamblin / 1861 / To / John Monroe"

A critical piece of primary resource print material related to John Brown, The Secret Six, and the Raid on Harper’s Ferry. This copy is very handsomely inscribed by Lincoln's Vice President Hannibal Hamlin. The volume was gifted either just before or right after the beginning of hostilities in the Civil War, presented, in Hamlin's hand, to John Monroe of Maine, Hamlin's home state. 

The text includes first-hand correspondence and extensive testimony from John Brown, William Seward, Robert E. Lee, George L. Stearns, and others. An important early compilation of documents related to the Harper's Ferry Raid. 

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