| Quartermaster General's Department |
| Richmond 4th Apl 1862 |
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| Samuel Tate, Esq |
| Prest Memphis & Charleston R. Road |
| Memphis, Tenn. |
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| Sir, |
| The rolling mills at Atlanta and Etowah,
engaged in filling important contracts with the Government, are much embarrassed
by the detention of Coal trains on the N. & Chattanooga {Nashville
& Chattanooga RR} or the Memphis & Charleston roads.
Supply of this essential article is required constantly, and the
public interest demands that the cause of its interruption should be
promptly removed. All such trains are forwarded without detention on
the Western & Atlantic Road, and the delay must occur, as above
stated, on the other roads beyond Chattanooga. |
| I have, therefore, to request that you
will give the subject immediate attention, and have every possible
arrangement made to secure to these mills an uninterrupted supply of
coal. |
| A. C. Myers, Q. M. Genl. |
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