Harper's Ferry, Nov. 22d, 1859–8.52 A. M.
W. P. Smith:
All is quiet here. Gov. Wise has ordered back the Petersburg and Richmond troops. One hundred and fifty I sent on the express this morning, and one hundred go on a special train to Charlestown this morning to bring three hundred here, and with the two hundred left over will arrange to send on mail train. He dispatched me last evening to make arrangements to have them connect with the 4 P. M. train to Richmond. I will have cars here for the troops from Charlestown, but have telegraphed Mr. England to send four cars on the mail West to-day.
I would suggest you inform them in Washington of the troops departure from here.
A. P. SHUTT.
SOURCE: B. H. Richardson, Annapolis, Maryland, Publisher, Correspondence
Relating to the Insurrection at Harper's Ferry, 17th October, 1859, p. 48
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