Cumberland Nov. 29th, 1859.
James Post,
Martinsburg:
We gave you the order to ride entirely on the authority of the State officers of Virginia, and cannot renew it without their express requisition to that effect.
W. P. SMITH.
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* A detctive acting under military orders.
SOURCE: B. H. Richardson, Annapolis, Maryland, Publisher, Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection at Harper's Ferry, 17th October, 1859, p. 60
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