| Quarter Master General's Department |
| Richmond, April 7th 1864 |
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| Maj. Genl. Whiting |
| Wilmington, N. C. |
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| Your dispatch of the 4th
instance received. I am perfectly satisfied that we cannot supply the
Army of Virginia and allow more than one passenger train daily to run
between Augusta and Richmond, and it may be necessary to stop both
trains. The order of the War Department has been rigidly enforced on
all the roads except those meeting at Wilmington, and the other Roads
have justly complained of this discrimination. Provisions must come in
a continuous stream and we cannot rely on promises to remove in a few
days the accumulations of 15 days, even when made in perfect good
faith. |
| A. R. Lawton, Q. M.
Genl. |
| Sent by telegram. |
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