| Quartermaster General's Department |
| Richmond, May 6, 1863 |
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| Cap. W. G. Bentley |
| AQM |
| Richmond |
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| Captain, |
| Send at once to the rail road
{Richmond & Petersburg RR} six thousand
pairs of shoes, directed to Captain E. B. Branch, A. Q. M. Petersburg
for issue to the soldiers of General Longstreet's command. |
| Notify Captain Branch by telegraph that
they have been sent. |
| The shoes must reach Petersburg tonight. |
| By order of Q. M Genl. |
| Richd L. Cox |
| Maj & Q. M. |
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