“United Guards,” Frederick, Md.
Dear Sir:—I have
intended writing you since the 2nd inst., on which day the President of this
Company handed me your letter of the 1st, addressed to him. He requested me to
reply to it, and to refund you the amount you paid the Company for your fare in
coming to Baltimore to see him.
He desired me
further, to again thank you for the promptness, zeal, and efficiency which you
exhibited, (and through you to thank also your officers and men on the same
behalf,) in repairing to the vicinity of Harper's Ferry, to protect it from the
violence of the late insurgents and afterwards from the threatened attempts at
a rescue of the prisoners.
We will be obliged
to you if you will at once write us, giving the amount which we are to refund
as above, and also send us bills of all expenses directly incurred in your two
visits to the Ferry. Please endorse these bills officially, as correct, and
also endorse the two bills which I return to you herewith for that purpose. By
doing this you will greatly oblige us.
