Subsistence Department, C. S. A. |
Richmond |
March 13, 1865 |
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Hon. J. C. Breckinridge |
Secretary of War |
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Sir, |
In connection with my communication of
the 10th instant, in reply to your call for information, I am now
reluctantly compelled to ask your attention to the dispatches of
this morning from Raleigh. My estimate of the means of procuring subsistence for the army
until the next crop was based on uninterrupted railroad
communication to Abingdon, Va. {by the Richmond & Danville RR and the
Virginia & Tennessee RR}, and Charlotte {by
the Richmond & Danville RR, the Piedmont RR and the North
Carolina RR} and Goldsborough, N. C.
{by the Richmond & Danville RR, the Piedmont RR and the North
Carolina RR} If the latter point with its circle of supply be
lost, the problem of army subsistence becomes to the last degree
uncertain. I ask that due stress be given to this consideration in
using my report. |
Very respectfully, your obedient servant, |
I. M. St. John |
Commissary General |
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