| Quartermaster General's Department |
| Richmond July 21st 1863 |
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| Major Huston Lee |
| QM |
| Charleston, S. C. |
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| Major, |
| A letter from Henry M. Drane
Esqr, General Superintendent of the Wilmington & Manchester Rail
Road Company to Captain McKinney Chief Commissary at Wilmington, North
Carolina, has been referred to me from the War Department. This letter
states that the Wilmington & Manchester Road is so deficient in
cars, that it is unable without assistance from other Roads to
transport necessary supplies for the Government. It states that the
Georgia, and South Carolina Roads have each a large stock of cars, and
could, between them, furnish the needed number, twelve, each Road
furnishing six. Mr. Drane expresses the opinion, that with twelve box
cars, all the required transportation can be furnished. |
| You are instructed,
immediately upon the receipt of this to arrange with the South
Carolina Rail Road for the use on the Wilmington & Manchester
Road, of such box cars as can be spared, and to communicate on the
subject with Major J. T. Winnemore, Quarter Master at Augusta,
Georgia, to whom I have given like instructions in regard to the
Georgia Rail Road. |
| A. C. Myers, Q. M. Genl. |
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