| Gen'l Supt's Office, Nashville & Chattanooga Rail
Road |
| Chattanooga, Tenn Feby 17, 1863 |
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| Col. A. C. Myers |
| Richmond Va |
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Colonel,
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| I have been exclusively in the
Transportation Department of our Army, since the commencement of the
existing War and most of that time on the line of the Nashville &
Chattanooga Rail Road Company. During most of the time stated, I have
audited from time to time the Accounts of said Company, and am
satisfied the Government could not use the road, if the Rolling Stock
was given us, for less than the Government has paid it. |
| The Superintendent regrets in the
accompanying communication, that you instructed the chief
quartermaster of this Department to continue to allow his company four
(4c) cents per mile for each soldier transported on the Nashville
& Chattanooga Rail Road. |
| And, in view of the damage that Road has
sustained, loosing in compliance with military order, several of its
Locomotives and about Two Hundred our of Three Hundred cars -- as also
in view of the high price for everything purchased by the company and
for the service of its employees and the additional fact, that it has
lost the benefit of all connecting Roads, and can now do nothing but a
local business, if the cars were to be had, therefore I respectfully
recommend that you allow the said Nashville & Chattanooga Rail
Road Company four cents per mile for all soldiers transported over the
Road during the year 1863. |
| Very Respectfully, Your obt Svt. |
| Jno. S. Bransford |
| Major and Q. M. |
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