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Richmond April 15th 1863
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| Col. A. C. Myers |
| Qr. Mr. Genl |
| Richmond, Va. |
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| In obedience to orders from
you -- I, on the 4th July 1862 receipted from the Georgia Rail Road
& Banking Co. for nineteen Box Cars purchased from that Company by
Maj Wm S Ashe Q. M. The cars were then ??ted about & I receipted
for them unwillingly. I took them up on my property return &
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When Col Wm M Wadley was assigned to duty as Chief of
Transportation I offered to turn the whole over to him, according to
orders, but he declined to receipt for the cars unless actually put in
his possession, or upon the receipt of the Superintendent of a Rail
Road. This I was unable to do, as I no longer had charge of
transportation & consequently no power to move or concentrate the
cars. The Rail Road Superintendents refuse to receipt for cars which
do not run exclusively on their own special roads & it will thus
be seen that the requirements of Col Wadley can not be met.
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It will be seen from the accompanying statements that I
have made every possible search after the cars & that there is
certainly one & perhaps two, which can not be found, and,
as these were probably destroyed by our troops or captured by the
enemy when we evacuated Corinth, I respectfully ask permission to drop
them from my property return, and that I be relieved of all
responsibility for the other six, over which I have no control,
& as there is no probability of my getting receipts for them from
Col Wadley.
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In October 1862 under orders from you, Maj J. T. Winnemar
QM at Augusta Ga, turned over to the Navy Department, for hauling coal
from Chattanooga to Charleston, sixteen (16) of these cars, numbered
as follows: 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 6, ???, 11
& from that time I have had no control over them. See Statements
of ??? Tapp C. S. Agt & Geo Yonge Supt Ga. R. R.
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Car No (1) one was at Jackson, Miss on 5th February 1863,
side statement of Maj McMahon, & U. S. Boone.
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Car No (2) two is on some of the Railroads South of the
Memphis & Charleston R. R. & was at Jackson Miss 24 July 1862.
As to the probable loss or destruction of two of the cars see
statements of Maj Goodwin QM & Capt C. F. Moore A. Q. M.
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Col Wadley has receipted to me for eleven (11) of these
cars, leaving eight still to be accounted for.
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To facilitate the transportation of Government supplies
these cars were ordered to run on the Railroads between Memphis &
Wilmington N. C. & were so used.
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In view of my inability to collect the cars, and of my
having all the while been stationed at Richmond too far off to watch
them and of my unwillingness to receive them I beg to be allowed to
drop the two that are supposed to be lost or captured, and, to
be relieved of responsibility for the other six.
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If required, I am willing to make an affidavit to the
facts herein stated.
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I am Colonel
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Very Respectfully
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Yr. obt Servt.
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Mason Morfit
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Maj & Q M
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