| Mayors Office City of Macon Georgia |
| February 22d 1865 |
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| Genl G T Beauregard |
| Commanding Department |
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| General, |
| Being informed that orders
have been issued ??? to take up ??on the rails from the Macon &
Brunswick Rail Road terminating at this place & believing that if
the necessity of the Road to public & private interests here had
been justly represented to you, that the order would not have issued.
I beg leave to state briefly its indispensable value to the
City of Macon as a Corporation. |
| There are (1200) Twelve
Hundred indigent families of soldiers & refugees resident here,
who are supported by charity dispensed through the Agency of the municipal
authorities. The fuel fuel entirely & the subsistence mainly for
the purpose is brought over the Macon & Brunswick R. Rd. because
of the other R Road entering this City, the Central is repaired for a
short distance through a country pillaged by the enemy & ??? ???
??? pursuit to ???. The Macon & Western runs through to a section
bare of wood & provisions, while the South Western is monopolized
the needs of the Government, & the Macon & Brunswick alone
services & furnish the convenience that we are obliged to
have. |
| Very Respectfully |
| Yr obt Sevt |
| L. Collins |
| Mayor |
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