| Engineer Bureau |
| Mar 3d, 1863 |
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| Endorsement on letter of Lewis E. Harvie Prest.
Piedmont R. Rd. Co. asking that twenty hands, impressed 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, Va., compels me to
place the negroes from Giles County on the defences." |
| J. F. Gilmer |
| Col & Chf of Engr. Bu |
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