HEAD QUARTERS,
Charlestown, Dec. 1, 1859.
W. P. Smith, Esq.: Master of Trans:, B. & O. R. R. Co.
Dear Sir:—I am instructed by Maj. General Taliaferro
to say to you that your dispatch of this afternoon was received while he was
most busily engaged—and he answered it, having given only a cursory attention
to it. Having had an opportunity to examÃne it, he thinks it proper to say to
you, that the dispatch was received from persons, who are in no wise, so
far as he is apprised, connected with the Balt. & O. R. Road, that they
were and are entire strangers to him.
The General in
command regrets that your company should be subjected to blame on the part of\ the persons
who were arrested.
I am, most respectfully,
S. BASSETT FRENCH,
Mil. Sec. to Wm. B. Taliaferro,
Maj. Genl. Commanding at Charlestown.
SOURCE: B. H.
Richardson, Annapolis, Maryland, Publisher, Correspondence
Relating to the Insurrection at Harper's Ferry, 17th October, 1859, p. 72
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