NA, QM 5/9/1864

Quartermaster General's Department
Richmond, May 9th 1864
 
Maj. G. W. Cameron
Wilmington, N. C.
  
Sir,
   Capt. McCoy AQM, just arrived in Richmond under orders, reports to me that by the permission of the officers of the 11th S. C., he obtained a seat in the cars appropriated to those officers, & that the car was not filled; that vacant seats in the cars were afterwards filled by ladies, who got in at Way Station. This on Friday May 8.
   Please let me know how it happened that in the existing pressure, requiring that every man who can bear arms should be hurried forward, any car was permitted to leave Wilmington unless filled to its utmost capacity with such men.
A. R. Lawton, Q. M. G.

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