OR, Series 1, Vol. 52, Part 2, Page 602B

Milledgeville
January 17, 1864
 
His Excellency Jefferson Davis
 
   General Johnston's charge of want of efficiency in the management of the State road {the Western & Atlantic RR} is without foundation. The officers of the road are doing everything in their power with the means at their command. Confederate officers have taken from the State road and had lost or destroyed upon other roads over 200 cars and eight engines belonging to the road. This leaves the road short of rolling-stock. I demand that two good engines and fifty cars be returned to the road immediately by the Government, whose officers have deprived it of over four times that number. If this is done promptly, General Johnston's freight can be carried. If it is refused, the responsibility must rest where it belongs.
J. E. Brown

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