NA, DTM 3/4/1864

Hd Qrs Trans. Miss Dept
Shreveport La Mar 4th 1864
 
Major E. A. Blanch
Chf Eng S. P. R. R. Co  {Southern Pacific RR}
Marshall Texas
 
Major,
   I am directed by the Lieut Genl Comdg to ask if you have an Agent to send to Monroe La. to superintend the moving of rails &c from that place.
I am sir very respectfully
Your obt servt
W R Boggs
Brig Gen & Chf of Staff
{These rails would have come from the Vicksburg, Shreveport & Texas RR and were probably shipped by boat down the Ouachita River and back up to Shreveport on the Red River}

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