| Quartermaster General's Department |
| Richmond, Va. July 18, 1861 |
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| Major W. S. Ashe {President,
Wilmington & Weldon RR} |
| A. Q. Master |
| Richmond, Va. |
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| Sir, |
| By direction of the President you are
assigned to the duty of superintending the transportation of Troops
and Military stores on all the Rail roads, north and south, in the
Confederate States. |
| Your especial attention is called to the
detention of Freights on the road from Wilmington to Richmond, and
from Nashville to Richmond which have resulted in inconvenience to the
Government, and if not corrected must lead to serious results. |
| You will confer freely with Mr. Campbell
Wallace, President of E. Tenn. and Geo. R. Road, from whom this
Department has received the most energetic and valuable aid, as has
also been the case from Colonel Pollard {President,
Montgomery & West Point RR and Alabama & Florida (of Alabama)
RR} at Montgomery and Colonel Sam Tate {President,
Memphis & Charleston RR} at Memphis. |
| The necessity of concert of action between
the various Rail Road Companies in Richmond to control the movement,
speed, time-table and connection of the numerous trains going out of
Richmond calls for your particular notice. The proposed connection of
the roads in Richmond and Petersburg is most essential and should be
completed at once. |
| Under the authority vested in you as Qr.
Mr. in the Provisional Army, you will give such orders as you deem
necessary for the advancement of the public interest; and from your
knowledge of the subject confided to you any changes in the
arrangements at present in operation is left to your judgment. |
| A. C. Myers, A. Q. Mr. Genl. |