NA, QM 7/4/1864

Quartermaster General's Department
July 4th 1864
 
Capt. J. M. Robinson
Engineers etc
  
Sir,
   When it is necessary for the railroad companies between Richmond & Wilmington to obtain wood for the fuel of their locomotives, & the sale of it is refused to them, you are instructed to make inquiry into the facts of the case if necessary to order the impressment of so much wood as may be necessary to carry on Government Transportation, taking care to see that the owners of it are properly remunerated by the company for whose use it is impressed & that their property is impressed to the least extent.
A. R. Lawton QMG.

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