[Received / From / State Dep. / Nov. 24, 1894. / R.P.O. 401810.] [Annotation, upper right corner:] [undecipherable] Harpers ferry 2^nd May 1800 Colonol Samuel Hodgdon N° 148 Arch Stret Philadelphia N° 62. Harpers ferry I arrived here on the 1^st inst much fatigued having travelled all the way from Baltimore to this place in two days & a half, in company with a waggon & my baggage, as no chance of getting a boat to Georgetown offered in less than 3 days; on my arrival I applied for a tent or hut, but all were occupied & had not Cap^t Fleeman shifted for himself & given me his tent I must have slept out of doors — The Infantry are dying very fast, the [undecipherable] are healthy, but I have no medicines nor can I get any from the Infantry, indeed they have very little & more to the I [undecipherable] therefore that you would send me on a general supply for my own corps, of Medicine Instruments & Hospital Stores, the commanding mistake of giving Madeira wine for the sick, furnishes them [strikethrough: ——] with very bad [undecipherable] I pray therefore that my supply may be sent from Phil[adelphia] with all possible expedition — Please to inform me how you [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to M^rs Philips & the rest of your family also to Col Pickney & M^r Montgomery I was to blame to go — [undecipherable] waiting upon them — pray send [undecipherable] to Brown the [undecipherable] to know why he does not forward my papers — Agreeably to your request I have examined my book & find that I have paid one hundred & twenty dollars to Col. O'Hara on your account & thirty to Major Swann — you informed me that my little property was in Bank stock pray send me a certificate of my share as [undecipherable] time of a great [undecipherable: probable reading Bargain] take it in my head to purchase a farm near the City of Washington and a transfer of there will pass as money; if I did not see that you take pleasure in serving me I would not [undecipherable] to trouble you so, however I may yet have it in power to serve you — I had not time to make a a return of medicine do [undecipherable] not necessary D^r [undecipherable: probable reading Strops] will know what will be wanted for a [underline: Battallion of Artilley] for one year — adieu — yours soon D^r Sir your humble Servant Cha^s Brown Col. Sam^l Hodgdon