| Received at Richmond Oct 25 1863 at ... o'clock, ... minutes, |
| By telegraph from Wilmington 25. To
Maj T L Bayne |
| |
| There twenty two hundred (2200) bales cotton waiting
transportation from Georgia Depot at Augusta which this Road
requires recommend this cotton is intended to come here and to store
it and then reship will entail heavy expenses propose dispatch is
not used on the S. C. R. R a train loaned on the sixteenth had not
left Augusta on twenty second telegh me & Johnson whether Major
Sims can remedy this and if the twenty hundred 2000 must be stored
or not |
| I M Seixas |
| {File data on reverse} Respectfully
referred to Major Sims with the request that he will give orders to
have the cotton sent forward. It is urgently needed. |
| Tho L Bayne Major |
| Oct 26th 63 |