NA, ENG 6/30B/1864

Engineer Bureau
June 30, 1864
 
Chas. G. Talcott Esq
Supdt R. & D. R. R.
 
Sir,
   Please forward the following dispatch by telegraph or otherwise so that it will reach its destination promptly:
 
To Sheriff Halifax Co.
   Collect without delay the three hundred hands recently collected for work in the fortifications & directed to be disbanded, & turn them over to Capt. Myers repairing R. & D. {Richmond & Danville} R. R. This by direction of Hon Sec'y of War. The cause is urgent & all important.
 
A. L. Rives
Col &c

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