| Confederate States of America |
| War Department |
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Nitre and Mining Bureau
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| Chattanooga Jan 22d 1863 |
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| Received of Wm R Hunt Major &c on ordnance duty
thirty three thousand three hundred & thirty three 33/100 dollars
the first installment of one hundred thousand dollars to be advanced
you for the purpose of building a Rolling Mill & Blast Furnaces to
carry out a contract entered into between myself & the War
department of the Confederate States through J. Gorgas Col & Chief
of Ordnance of date of Jan 1st 1863. |
| S B Lowe |
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