| Quartermaster General's Department |
| Richmond, Dec. 18th 1863 |
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| Major T. W. Cameron |
| QM |
| Wilmington, N. C. |
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| Major, |
| Yours of the 14th instant, enclosing copy
of your instructions on the subject of securing to the Government
one-half of the freight capacity of all inward cotton trains, has been
received by this office, and I am directed by the Quarter Master
General to write to you that it is "all right." |
| W. F. Alexander, Major & Asst. to the Q. M. Genl. |
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