Tuesday, November 9, 2021

A. P. Shutt to A. Diffey, October 19, 1859

Harper's Ferry, October 19th, 1859.
A. Diffey,
        Martinsburg

It is reported to me that the Tonnage train men on the front engine, last night, bound East, fired on the Guard at Sandy Hook. Please notify them that there will be a guard from the East end of the Bridge, to Water Station at Sandy Hook, nightly, until further notice.

A. P. SHUTT.

SOURCE: B. H. Richardson, Annapolis, Maryland, Publisher, Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection at Harper's Ferry, 17th October, 1859, p. 26

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