Confederate States of America
| Quartermaster Gen. Office |
| Richmond Janry 12th 1863 |
| |
| A. F. Ravenel |
| President North Eastern RR Co |
| Charleston, S. C. |
| |
| Sir, |
| I have carefully read and considered your
letter stating your reasons for rendering your recent accounts for
transportation of troops at 3 cents per mile per man, but, with
every disposition to exercise liberality, I cannot find in your
letter reasons sufficiently strong to justify me in approving the
increase rate. If, as I gather from your letter you are enabled by
your own rolling stock to supply the deficiencies of the Wilmington
& Manchester Road you remedy the difficulty of which you
complain and get besides, compensation from that Road for the
rolling stock used by it. The rate of through fare Roads as
fixed by the RR Convention held at Columbia and agreed to by me, is
two cents per mile per man of side lines three cents per mile
per man. Your Road is a through fare. From this tariff
established by the RRoads themselves, I do not feel authorized to
deviate unless upon strong reason making out a case of peculiar
hardship. Unless you can present a strong case to me I must regard
the Columbia Tariff as applicable to your Road, both for Troops and
Freight. |
| Very respectfully |
| Your obedient servant |
| A. Myers QMGen |
|