| Quartermaster General's Department |
| Richmond, Dec 21st, 1863 |
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| Major Huston Lee |
| Chief QM |
| Charleston, S. C. |
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| Sir, |
| I am instructed by the Quarter Master
General to call your attention to the following extract from a letter
received from Major Noble, Quarter Master, Fort Valley, Georgia,
December 12th. "My attention was yesterday called to four car
loads of fodder which were passing here -- the fodder was shipped from
Americus, and destined fro Charleston. On examination I found that it
was rotten or nearly so, and not worth the cost of
transportation." |
| The pressure for Rail Road Transportation
is so great that transportation for long forage cannot be
furnished by rail from South Western Georgia to Charleston, and the
Quarter Master General directs, that you take such steps as will effectually
guard against any such shipments in future. And where an agent ships
forage in such condition as is described above, his conduct deserves
severe censure, and argues unfitness for his position. |
| W. F. Alexander |
| Major & Asst to the Q. M. Genl. |
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