With them they also brought a large four-horse farm wagon, which he now sent to transfer arms from the Kennedy farm to a school-house on the Maryland side of the Potomac, about one mile from the town.
Meanwhile, about midnight of Sunday, they detained the railroad train three hours, but finally allowed it to proceed.

A negro porter was shot on the bridge.

The town began to be alarmed.

Citizens were captured at various points, and brought to swell the number of prisoners at the armory, counting forty or fifty by morning.

Still, not until daylight, and even until the usual hour of rising on Monday morning, did the town comprehend the nature and extent of the trouble.
What, now, did Brown intend to do?
What result did he look for from his movement thus far?
Amid his conflicting acts and contradictory explanations, the indications seem clear only on two or three points.
Both he and his men gave everybody to understand without reserve that they had come not to kill whites, but only to liberate slaves.