Quartermaster-General's Department
| Richmond, Va., September 21, 1861 |
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| Hon. J. P. Benjamin, Acting
Secretary of War |
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| Sir, |
| I received your letter of yesterday in regard to
the reported detention of cars at Manassas, and, in obedience to
your instructions, have the honor to inform you that I received a
telegraph yesterday from Major Cabell, chief of the quartermasters
department at Manassas, informing me that the cars of the Central
Railroad were never unnecessarily detained at Manassas, and that no
cars were now there. His dispatch was in reply to mine ordering the
cars immediately to Richmond. I had been informed by a railroad
president that some hundred railroad cars wore detained at Manassas.
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| Several of the
{Virginia} Central Railroad cars
are detained at Millborough, beyond Staunton. As far as I can
discover, there is a mistake in the report of the detention at
Manassas.
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| The superintendent of the Central
Railroad, in his reply to my questions to him on the subject of the
detention of cars at Manassas, concludes with these words: "I
have been misinformed." |
| Very respectfully, your obedient servant, |
| A. C. Myers |
| Quartermaster- General |
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