| Q M Department |
| Macon Ga. Feby 22, 1865 |
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| General G. T. Beauregard |
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| General, |
| The undersigned officers of
the Quartermaster Department at this Post, view with just alarm the
intention to remove the rail from the Macon & Brunswick Rail Road
and beg to be allowed to represent that the importance is such to the
interests we have in charge that very great if not irreparable injury
will result if the line of the Road is shortened; for the reason that
it has just reached a section of heavily timbered and unculled pine
land available for fuel in any quantity, and the site of several saw
mills in operation and others in projection, besides that the counties
reached by it not having been visited by the Enemy yield very largely
in forage and subsistence. |
| We respectfully request that
the order may be countermanded, if it is consistent with other
necessities of the Government. |
| Very Respectfully |
| J G Michailoffsky Maj & QM |
| John T Brown Capt & AQM & ??? |
| H C Cunningham |
| Capt & Post ACS |
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