Thursday, July 29, 2021

Charles E. Waters to William Preston Smith, October 17, 1859

Baltimore, October 17th, 1859.
W. P. Smith,
        On Train West, Ellicott's Mills.

The President says, would it not be well to have Conductor Phelps go up on the train to-morrow, to be on hand to identify any parties that may be arrested.

CHARLES E. WATERS.

SOURCE: B. H. Richardson, Annapolis, Maryland, Publisher, Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection at Harper's Ferry, 17th October, 1859, p. 16

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