| Richmond & Danville Rail Road |
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Superintendent's Office |
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Richmond, May 24th 1862 |
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Hon G W Randolph |
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Secretary of War |
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Sir, |
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The difficulty of getting iron for the superstructure of
the Piedmont Railroad is so great as to make us depend absolutely on the
government for its procurement |
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I take leave to say that I learn the Navy Dept. has a
considerable amount of it in Charleston. The Seaboard
{& Roanoke} road is not now used and iron
may be taken from that and the Norfolk & Petersburg Road also. There are
three miles of iron or more on the Port Walthall Branch of the R&P
{Richmond & Petersburg} R Road and four or
five miles on the Keysville & Clarksville Railroad
{northward extension of the Roanoke Valley RR} not now in use but
owned by the Roanoke Valley RRd of which Henry Wood is the President. It
is of great importance that iron be furnished us, in order that we may
put the Piedmont Road to work in whole or in part at the earliest
practicable time. |
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Very Respectfully |
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Lewis E. Harris |
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President R&D R Rd Co |
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