| Office Mobile & Ohio RR |
| Mobile May 21st 1864 |
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| Lt Col F W Sims |
| Chf of Rail Road Bureau |
| Richmond |
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| Colonel, |
| Some of the cars belonging to
this Company were run by the Memphis & Charleston from Corinth to
Chattanooga and have been in use on the Georgia, Tennessee and South
Carolina Roads ever since. One of them a Platform, has been used for
some time by one Maxwell in the transportation of lumber for the
construction of Bridges under a contract with the Government and a box
car is in the use of the South Carolina Rail Road Company. |
| Please have these cars and all
others on those Roads belonging to this company returned to this
place. |
| Very Respectfully |
| L. J. Fleming |
| Chf Eng & Genl Supt |
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