Train has arrived
here with troops. Gen'l Steuart orders that no more troops of any description
be sent up, as the work is over, except what the United States Marines may do
in maintaining guard.
Gov. Wise and
Richmond troops are at Harper's Ferry. Trains all safe and will now fully
resume their ordinary regularity. We have safely returned the Frederick troops
and guns to that place. We have the Baltimore Brigade entire on my train, every
man safe, but sleepy and hungry. Not one of us got over two hours sleep since
leaving Baltimore, and that in the cars.
The Company's men
have all behaved very energetically and bravely, and had they been seconded
properly yesterday, would have saved the Marines their assault and victory
to-day.
None of the property
of the Company, stationary or movable, has been injured, so far as I can learn;
nor was the life of a single passenger imprudently or unduly risked.
Reporters of New
York Times, and other distant papers, are on the train with me. The
Shepherdstown Guards are bound home on mail west.
W. P. SMITH.
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