Special Orders No. 9
| Adjt. and Insp. General's Office |
| Richmond, January 12, 1865 |
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| VIII. Col. R. E. Withers, commanding post at
Danville, Va., will immediately turn over the negroes employed on
the defenses at that place to Maj. E. T. D. Myers, of the Engineer
Corps, for temporary service on repairs on the Piedmont Railroad. |
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| By order of the Secretary of War |
| Jno. Withers |
| Assistant Adjutant-General |
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