NA, QM 9/3/1863

Quartermaster General's Department
Richmond, Sept. 3d 1863
 
Major L. R. Chisman
QM
Greensboro, N. C.
   
Sir,
   In your communication of the 31st ultimo, you ask for a special grant of impressment to enable you to organize a wagon train if the Weldon & Petersburg R. Rd. {the Petersburg RR} should be at any time disabled or occupied by a force of the enemy. In reply I enclose the necessary authority. The phrase "Army Supplies" includes "Labor and Transportation" which you are authorized to impress should the exigencies of the public service render it necessary.
A. R. Lawton, Q. M. General

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