| Engineer Bureau |
| June 30, 1864 |
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| Chas. G. Talcott Esq |
| Supdt R. & D. R. R. |
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| Sir, |
| Please forward the
following dispatch by telegraph or otherwise so that it will reach its
destination promptly: |
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| To Sheriff Halifax Co. |
| Collect without
delay the three hundred hands recently collected for work in the
fortifications & directed to be disbanded, & turn them over to
Capt. Myers repairing R. & D. {Richmond
& Danville} R. R. This by direction
of Hon Sec'y of War. The cause is urgent & all important. |
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| A. L. Rives |
| Col &c |
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