Baltimore, Oct. 26th, 1859.
Hon. J. B. Floyd, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.:
Our company has received the following message from A. M. Barbour, U. S. Superintendent at Harper's Ferry.
- Alfred M. Barbour to William Preston Smith, October 29, 1859
Will you do me the favor to say whether you have given orders to dispatch any force to Harper's Ferry by this afternoon's train from Washington to protect the armory? I only await your answer before asking the commander of the militia here to send a force to the spot during the pendency of Brown's trial and that of his associates. Is it not necessary to keep a Government force upon the spot? Pray advise me immediately.
JOHN W. GARRETT,
Pres't B. & O. R. R. Co.
SOURCE: B. H. Richardson, Annapolis, Maryland, Publisher, Correspondence
Relating to the Insurrection at Harper's Ferry, 17th October, 1859, p. 34-5
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