William Preston Smith to Captain John T. Sinn, November 20, 1859—2 p.m.

Baltimore, Nov. 20th, 1859—2 P. M.

Capt. J. T. Sinn, Frederick:

Received your dispatch.

We thank you and your gallant corps for your prompt offer of further service, and will at once confer with Gov. Hicks as to adopting your excellent suggestion about a detachment at Sandy Hook.

We will advise you fully should there seem to be any immediate occasion for alarm on the Maryland side, which we do not apprehend.

W. P. SMITH.

SOURCE: B. H. Richardson, Annapolis, Maryland, Publisher, Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection at Harper's Ferry, 17th October, 1859, p. 42