Friday, April 1, 2022

A. P. Shutt to William Preston Smith, November 20, 1859

Harper's Ferry, Nov. 20th.
Wm. P. Smith,
        Master Transportation,
                Camden Station.

The train with Gov. Wise and troops has arrived this 4.25 P. M.; and left for Charlestown, this 5 P. M. The Governor must be in possession of information—we have not—to justify him in sending so large a number of troops here. All is quiet about here, and I have not the least apprehension of trouble now; I shall keep a lookout, and report matters of interest. Two hundred of the troops are detached for this place.

A. P. SHUTT.

SOURCE: B. H. Richardson, Annapolis, Maryland, Publisher, Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection at Harper's Ferry, 17th October 1859, p. 43

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