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March of 1862 and ordered the medical building burned, re- 

 garded by McGuire as an act of hate and passion. If this tale is 

 true, it means that the dissected body of Owen Brown must have 

 been preserved in some way from October of 1859 to March of 

 1862, which seems rather unlikely. 



