| Chesterville, May 11th 1864 |
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| Major S. B. French |
| CS |
| Richmond VA |
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| Major, |
| Finding that Major Trouts
requisition for transportation was not promptly responded to I ran up to
Columbia yesterday morning. |
| All the bacon here is loaded
up & a engine will be on hand by nine oclock to take it on to Charlotte.
There is a block again at the Junction -- 10,000 bags corn
{66 car loads} at the Depot. Capt Sharp has
called upon Capt Sims & the Georgia Rail Road for help, he has more than
he can do with increased ??hts. I hope he will obtain it altho' I see
that bacon has precedence over every thing else, here I caused a loaded
car to be unloaded to make room for bacon. I await the mornings train to
return to Columbia, where, if I receive no tidings from Capt Moon & the
Commissaries on the Greenville {& Columbia}
road, I shall go up there again & hurry them up, thence I propose to
visit the other District commissaries of the state directing shipments
to Charlotte & Richmond via Danville, and when there done all that I
can, I shall proceed on to Wilmington for your further order. If you are
hard pressed for bacon I repeat my former suggestion to order it from
Charleston where there is a large stock in shipping order, it can be
shipped to the Columbia Junction more readily & expeditiously than Capt
Witherspoon can pack & haul it from his store houses in Columbia. |
| I am Very Respectfully |
| W H Smith |
| Major & CS |
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