NA, QM 10/14/1863

Quartermaster General's Department
Richmond, Oct. 14th 1863
 
Cap. Shelton Toomer
AQM
West Point, Geo.
  
Sir,
   Transportation is desired by Captain Myers, Engineer in charge of the construction of the Piedmont Rail Road for forty (40) negroes and one (1) white man from West Point, Georgia, to Greensboro, North Carolina, via Columbia, South Carolina. 
   You are hereby instructed to furnish this, or any other similar transportation, promptly, upon the requisition of Captain Myers, as if on Government account -- the cost of transportation, however, to be paid by the Piedmont Rail Road Company.
A. R. Lawton, Q. M. Genl.

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