| Quartermaster General's Department |
| Sept. 1st 1864 |
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| Col. J. S. Corley |
| Petersburg, Va. |
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| I have directed all corn that
reaches Burkesville to be shipped to you until further orders. There
are but twenty five hundred bushels {140,000
pounds -- about 9 car loads} in Richmond. |
| A. R. Lawton, Q. M. Genl. |
| Sent by telegram. |
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