The work is done.
The marines after the insurgents refused to submit, broke in with sledges and
heavy ladders, and amid heavy firing on both sides, five killed and others
wounded, — took the survivors prisoners, and released the citizens who had been
held as hostages, among whom was our clerk, Donohoo. Major Russell, of marines,
headed them in person unarmed. I never saw so thrilling a scene. The insurgents
are all fanatical, white-livered looking scamps of the sort that is ever
agitating and exciting to mischief.
No difficulties have
attended our trains except their slight irregularity by the interruption. I
think the military from Baltimore will be down on mail train time, to-day. The
Pennsylvania railroad directors will leave Martinsburg this morning and get to
Baltimore this afternoon.
W. P. SMITH.
SOURCE: B. H.
Richardson, Annapolis, Maryland, Publisher, Correspondence Relating to
the Insurrection at Harper's Ferry, 17th October, 1859, p. 21
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