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Engineer Office, Department of SC, Ga & Fla
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Charleston, 15th Septr 1863 |
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| Major Motte A Pringle |
| Qr. Mr. |
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| Major, |
| I must request you to furnish
transportation for three hundred Negroes on the Wilmington & Manchester
Rail Road, and, about two hundred & fifty on the Camden Branch of the
SCRR, both gangs to come from Sumter Ct Hs. Wanted immediately. |
| resply yr obt sevt |
| Wm. H. Echols |
| Maj & Chf Eng S. C. |
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