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Executive Department {of the State of Georgia} |
| Milledgeville, March 25, 1863 |
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To the Senate and House of Representatives
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I have felt it my duty to convene you at an earlier day
than that fixed for your meeting, when you adjourned.
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Transportation of Provisions
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So great is the scarcity of provisions, in the Cherokee
Country, that it is impossible to subsist the soldiers families and
the poor much longer, without the transportation of corn from South
Western Georgia. The rolling stock upon the South Western, and the
Macon & Western Railroads, is not sufficient to carry forward the
corn, and to do the work required by the Confederate Government.
Surrounded by these difficulties, I have thought it best, to direct
the Superintendent of the State Road {the
Western & Atlantic RR}, to put one of his best trains upon
the Roads to South Western Georgia, for the transportation of corn to
supply bread to those who must otherwise suffer. I shall be obliged to
continue this policy till the emergency is passed, though I may not be
able to carry over the State Road, all Government freight offered, as
promptly as I could wish. I feel it to be my highest duty, to so use
the property of the State, as to prevent if possible, suffering, on
the part of the poor, or the families of soldiers, for want of bread.
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Joseph E. Brown {Governor} |
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