Friday, February 25, 2022

William Preston Smith to Captain John T. Sinn, November 15, 1859

Baltimore, Nov. 15, 1859.
Capt Jno. T. Sinn,
        “United Guards,” Frederick, Md.

Dear Sir:—I have intended writing you since the 2nd inst., on which day the President of this Company handed me your letter of the 1st, addressed to him. He requested me to reply to it, and to refund you the amount you paid the Company for your fare in coming to Baltimore to see him.

He desired me further, to again thank you for the promptness, zeal, and efficiency which you exhibited, (and through you to thank also your officers and men on the same behalf,) in repairing to the vicinity of Harper's Ferry, to protect it from the violence of the late insurgents and afterwards from the threatened attempts at a rescue of the prisoners.

We will be obliged to you if you will at once write us, giving the amount which we are to refund as above, and also send us bills of all expenses directly incurred in your two visits to the Ferry. Please endorse these bills officially, as correct, and also endorse the two bills which I return to you herewith for that purpose. By doing this you will greatly oblige us.

Very respectfully yours,

W. P. SMITH, Master of Transportation.

SOURCE: B. H. Richardson, Annapolis, Maryland, Publisher, Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection at Harper's Ferry, 17th October, 1859, p. 41

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