William Preston Smith to Alexander Diffey, November 24, 1859

Baltimore, Nov. 24th, 1859.

A. Diffey, Martinsburg:

I did send such a dispatch in response to request of Col. Davis, who telegraphed me to do so without delay. To prevent doubt as to genuineness of the authority, will you either endorse the dispatch he bears with your own name and handwriting as correct, or get Capt. Gorton to do so? Have you any more rumors of approaching rescuers?

W. P. SMITH.

One hundred more Richmond troops will go from Relay to Charlestown on mail to-morrow.

SOURCE: B. H. Richardson, Annapolis, Maryland, Publisher, Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection at Harper's Ferry, 17th October, 1859, p. 50