| Quartermaster General's Department |
| Richmond June 17, 1863 |
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| Major James Glover |
| QM |
| Knoxville, Tenn. |
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| Sir, |
| There are many cases of real difficulty
presented by cases involving the loss of public property in course of
its transportation by Rail Roads. This usually arises from the
condition of the rolling Stock, rendered often times insecure by the
act of troops in the service of the Confederacy, and from the hurry of
shipments made necessary by the pressing wants of the service. |
| The case, however, presented by your
letter of the 6th instant, hardly comes within either of the classes
referred to and I do not see any thing special in the facts as
presented by Mr. Wallaces' {President, East
Tennessee & Georgia RR} statement to exempt the Road from
its ordinary responsibility, in this instance. |
| A. C. Myers, Q. M. Genl. |
| P. S. If Mr. Wallace will make affidavit
that the particular cars in which these losses occurred were injured
and made insecure by the action of soldiers, thereby occasioning loss
the case may be reconsidered. |
| A. C. M., Q. M. G. |
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