NA, QMR 4/7/1864

April 7th 1864   {Date of letter is unknown; this is the date received by QMG}
 
Asks orders may be given for transptn of 10,000 shells & 3 or 4,000 horse shoes from Salisbury NC {on North Carolina RR} to Atlanta Ga.
{Who signed the request is not stated, but it may be Maj McKinnie and forwarded by Secretary of War}
 
7 Ap/64. Retd to Col Gorgas, whose attention is called to recent conversation in reference to transporting horse shoes from line of Wilmington & Weldon RR to Richmond where they were so much needed by Johnson's army. Orders now requested will be promptly given. A R Lawton QMG
 
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