Record Data
Source citation
William Still, The Underground Rail Road (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872), 199.
Type
Letter
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Zak Rosenberg
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Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and other typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
HAMILTON, August 15th, 1856.
DEAR FRIEND:-I am very glad to hear that the Underground Rail Road is doing such good business, but tell me in your next letter if you have seen the heroic fellow that cut off the head of the Patrol in Maryland. We wants that fellow here, as John Bull has a great deal of fighting to do, and as there is a colored Captain in this city, I would seek to have that fellow Promoted, Provided he became a soldier. Great respect,
JOHN H. HILL.
P. S.-Please forward the enclosed to Mr. McCray.
