| Quartermaster General's Department |
| Richmond, Va. Aug. 15 '61 |
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| Mr. H. D. Whitcomb {Superintendent,
Virginia Central RR} |
| General Suptdt. |
| Richmond, Va. |
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| Sir, |
| I have received your letter enclosing a
printed copy of the proceedings of a Rail Road convention held in the
month of July last. It provides as you say for the free transportation
of all soldiers honorably discharged by reason of sickness or wounds.
You will find however that at a later period the Virginia Companies,
if not others further South, adopted regulations extending like privileges
to those in the service traveling by reason of sickness, on furlough
or on leave. A certificate of the Surgeon stating the reason of the
Furlough, and countersigned by the Regimental Commander is the
evidence the Companies require to prevent imposition. |
| These regulations were adopted August 1
and printed in some of the daily issues of the following day, and
would seem broad enough to cover the case of our wounded. |
| A. C. Myers, Q. M. General |
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