NA, SWR 5/6A/1862

Southern Telegraph
 
Received at Rich    May 6 1862 at        o'clock,     minutes
By telegraph from Petersburg  6  To The Hon'l Secty of War G. H. Randolph
 
   We believe an effort is making here to require the Railroads to take off tobacco to the prejudice of others who hold sugar flour bacon and other commodities. You see the injustice of such an order to the Provost Marshall. The latter products are worth more to the country than tobacco.
Thos Branch & ???

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