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A. P. Shutt to Major-General William B. Taliaferro, December 3, 1859

December 3, 1859.
Gen. Taliaferro:

I received no notice of the troops coming to-day until their ar. rival here, the detention was one hour and fifteen minutes. I will arrange for the transportation of two hundred and ten men tomorrow, to connect with the train Monday, 4 o'clock, A. M., that leaves Baltimore for Richmond. Please inform me at what hour to-morrow, Sunday, you will have them leave Charlestown.

A. P. SHUTT.

SOURCE: B. H. Richardson, Annapolis, Maryland, Publisher, Correspondence Relating to the Insurrection at Harper's Ferry, 17th October, 1859, p. 76

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