| Hernando, Miss., June 15, 1862 |
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| Brigadier-General Ruggles
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| Granada, Miss. |
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| General, |
| Your orders for the past few days have
been received, and as far as was in my power have been fully
complied with. I do not fully understand your order to tear up
railroad above this point {the Mississippi
& Tennessee RR}. If it is your wish that the iron shall
all be taken up you will have to order some one of the railroad men
now in your town up here to superintend it, and I will try and get a
force of negroes from the planters in this region to do the work.
There is not a man here to whom I can intrust the management of this
work, and as all the men who are and have been connected with our
railroads are in and around Grenada I shall have to trust you to
supply this necessity. If you only wish the bridges and trestle-work
on the road burned I can have this done from my own resources. The
roads as far down as Horn Lake Depot will be destroyed to-day by my
order. I await an answer from you explanatory before doing more. |
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| Respectfully,
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| J. H. Edmondson
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| Captain, C. S. Army
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