Milledgeville, January 17, 1864
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| His Excellency, Jefferson Davis
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| General Johnston's charge of want of
efficiency in the management of the State road {Western
& Atlantic RR} is without
foundation. The officers of the road are doing everything in their
power with the means at their command. Confederate officers have
taken from the State road and had lost or destroyed upon other roads
over 200 cars and eight engines belonging to the road. This leaves
the road short of rolling-stock. I demand that two good engines and
fifty cars be returned to the road immediately by the Government,
whose officers have deprived it of over four times that number. If
this is done promptly General Johnston's freight can be carried. If
it is refused, the responsibility must rest where it belongs. |
| Joseph E. Brown
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