Thursday, April 28, 2022

William Preston Smith to F. J. McCaffrey, November 21, 1859

Baltimore, Nov. 21, 1859.
F. J. McCaffrey, Benwood:

Have prompt and full enquiry made at Bellaire as to rumored concentration there of men from Kansas, &c., to attempt a rescue of Brown and other State prisoners, at Charlestown, and advise me fully.

W. P. SMITH.

SOURCE: B. H. Richardson, Annapolis, Maryland, Publisher, Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection at Harper's Ferry, 17th October, 1859, p. 46

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