NA, QM 2/19/1862

Quartermaster General's Department
Richmond, Feb. 19th 1862
 
Capt. W. D. Hawkins
Ridgeway, N. C.
  
Sir,
   You are requested to furnish as soon as may be possible, an estimate of the cost of constructing a plank road from Keysville, upon the Richmond & Danville R. R. to Clarksville on the Roanoke Valley R. R. a distance of about twenty two miles.
   You will state also, in what time such a road can probably be constructed; and add such other information, as to the supply of suitable  timber, facilities for procuring it etc, as may be pertinent to this subject.
A. C. Myers, Q. M. Genl

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