OR, Series 1, Vol. 51, Part 2, Page 942

Danville
May 17, 1864
 
General B. Bragg
Richmond, Va.
 
   All of our cavalry are without arms, but are being armed at different points. If you will order this railroad to transport 600 horses fifty miles, which they can easily do, I can have a force of 2,000 cavalry at Burkeville to-morrow. I have as yet heard nothing from my messages to you of yesterday.
P. M. B. Young
Brigadier-General
 
Indorsement
General Braxton Bragg
 
General,
   The transportation of 600 horses will require about sixty cars {4 15-car trains} and will take our freight trains two days. Our means of transportation are all needed for supplies destined for that city.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
C. G. Talcott
Superintendent Richmond & Danville Railroad

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