| Adjutant and Inspector-General's Office |
| Richmond, January 13, 1865 |
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| Special Orders No. 10 |
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| XL. It having been represented
that the railroads in North Carolina require immediate repairs in
consequence of damages recently sustained, and that the necessary labor
cannot be obtained for this purpose except by impressments, and
communication by these roads being indispensable to the supplying of the
Army of Northern Virginia and the troops in the District of North
Carolina, Brigadier-General Bradley T. Johnson, Provisional Army
Confederate States, will obtain such labor by the impressment of as many
slaves as may be necessary. To this end he is invested with all the
powers conferred by the laws and orders regulating impressments. |
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