| Engineer Bureau |
| Richmond, December 20th 1862 |
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| Lieut. Sommerfield Smith Corps Engrs |
| (Hotel?) Waynesboro' Va |
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| Your dispatch received. You can contract
for 500 or 600 tons of ice {63-75 car loads}
to be delivered to the Va Central RRd. The price as agreed upon
for delivering on Canal I now think too low. You can go up to two cents
pr lb. |
| J. F. Gilmer |
| Colonel of Engrs. & Chief of Bureau |