| Hd Qrs Dept Miss & E. La |
| Jackson April 16/63 |
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| Maj L. Mims |
| Chf Q. M. |
| Jackson |
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| Major, |
| I am directed by the Lt Genl
Comdg to direct you to await further orders before you send the trains
to Vicksburg for Brig Genl Vaughan's brigade. The Lt Genl also direct
that the two guns which arrived today must go through to Vicksburg on
the same cars, without being unloaded here, and the cars after being
unloaded must be returned immediately to the road to which they belong. |
| I am Major |
| Very respy &c |
| H. C. Tapper |
| A. D. C. |
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