William Preston Smith to A. P. Shutt, November 18, 1859

Baltimore, Nov. 18, 1859.

To Conductor A. P. Shutt,
        Wheeling:

As the excitement around Harper's Ferry is again high, and incendiarism so common in the vicinity, the President deems it prudent that we should renew your command there on behalf of the company at once. Come down on mail to night, changing place with conductor of Mail train, and we will send conductor to take train from you at Duffield's to-morrow.

W. P. SMITH.

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