| Quartermaster General's Department |
| Richmond, 2nd Nov. 1861 |
| |
| C. Wallace |
| Prest ET&Va RR Co {President,
East Tennessee & Virginia RR} |
| Knoxville |
| |
| Sir, |
| Upon your application I have to inform you
that the War Department is willing that you should surrender military
control over the East Tennessee & Virginia Rail Road trusting that
under the new direction, we shall have no further trouble with that
Road. |
| A. C. Myers, A. Q. M. G. |
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