OR, Series 1, Vol. 39, Part 2, Page 872

Hdqrs. Department of Ala., Miss., and East La.
Selma
September 25, 1864
 
Hon. James A. Seddon
Secretary of War
Richmond
 
Sir,
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   While at Montgomery I was impressed with the importance of completing the gap of railroad about thirty-nine miles in length between that point and Union Springs. The road is graded nearly its entire length, and if iron can by any possibility be furnished from some of the branch roads of Georgia with the labor I could procure it could be completed in time to obviate the difficulty and delay of hauling over the prairie country between the two points when the winter rains set in. I am pushing on as vigorously as possible the work on the gap of road between Demopolis and McDowell's Ferry, on the Tombigbee, but am somewhat fearful that the river will rise before the bridge is completed.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
R. Taylor
Lieutenant-General

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