| Executive Department |
| Milledgeville, Georgia
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| April 21, 1862
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| To all Confederate Military Officers
and Persons and Officers Controlling Railroads:
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| I am informed that a number of gentlemen
of Atlanta, owing to the great scarcity of salt in this State, have
associated themselves together for the purpose of bringing into the
State from the salt works in Virginia, a supply of that much needed
article.
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| I would therefore bespeak for them every
facility compatible with the public service to enable them to have
their salt shipped over the various railroads from the salt works to
Atlanta. This I respectfully but earnestly ask, as our people who
are not actually destitute of and suffering for want of salt are
compelled, from unprincipled speculation and the extreme scarcity of
salt in the country, to pay enormous and exorbitant prices for it.
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| Joseph E. Brown
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