| Jamestown,
N. C. |
| April 19, 1865 |
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| Major Morfit |
| Quartermaster Post, Salisbury |
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| I have been unable to
get transportation to-night. Can you send up a locomotive and one
car? If so, at what hour? Answer at once.
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| John C. Breckinridge |
| Secretary of War |
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| Salisbury, N. C. |
| April 19, 1865 |
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| General J. C. Breckinridge |
| Secretary of War |
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| The track is torn up
two miles from here {on the North Carolina RR}
and trains cannot pass till repaired. Will inform you when I
can send train. Regular train leaves at 11 o'clock to-morrow.
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| Mason Morfit |
| Major and Quartermaster |
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| Jamestown |
| April 19, 1865 |
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| Major Morfit |
| Salisbury |
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| Your
telegram received. It is important for me to proceed without delay.
I desire the use of a locomotive at an early hour to-morrow to
convey us to the break in the road, from which I will expect you to
forward us without delay. At what hour to-morrow morning can the
locomotive reach this point? Name the hour precisely, so that I may
be ready.
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| John C. Breckinridge |
| Secretary of War |
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