News Summary

• Silas Soule grew up in the abolitionist world of New England reformers.
• He personally escorted escape slaves out of Missouri and into the north that summer he arrived.
• Soule was a big fan of using armed forces to bust abolitionists out of prison.
• He wanted to try this to free John Brown too.
• He went to Virginia, did an imitation of a drunken Irishman and started a fight.
• He got thrown in the clink with Brown’s followers.
• He volunteered for the Army during the Civil War and was involved at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, where Union armies pushed back the Confederate attempt to take Colorado and its gold.