| Quartermaster General's Department |
| Richmond, May 9th 1864 |
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| Maj. G. W. Cameron |
| Wilmington, N. C. |
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| Sir, |
| Capt. McCoy AQM, just arrived in Richmond
under orders, reports to me that by the permission of the officers of
the 11th S. C., he obtained a seat in the cars appropriated to those
officers, & that the car was not filled; that vacant seats in the
cars were afterwards filled by ladies, who got in at Way Station. This
on Friday May 8. |
| Please let me know how it happened that in
the existing pressure, requiring that every man who can bear
arms should be hurried forward, any car was permitted to leave
Wilmington unless filled to its utmost capacity with such men. |
| A. R. Lawton, Q. M. G. |
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