| Engineer Bureau |
| March 3d, 1863 |
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| Endorsement on letter of Lewis E. Harvie Prest
Piedmont RRd Co asking that twenty hands, impresses from Giles County
be allowed to work on said Railroad instead of working on the
fortifications. |
| "The great want of labor on the
fortifications around Richmond Petersburg &c, compels me to place
the negroes from Giles County in the defences." |
| J. F. Gilmer |
| Col & Chf of Engr Bu |
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