| Quartermaster General's Department |
| Richmond, Sep. 12, 1863 |
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| Major A. H. Cole |
| Inspr. General Field Trans. |
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| Major, |
| I am directed by the Quarter Master General to request
you to send to Petersburg some suitable officer for the purpose of
receiving all the transportation and artillery horses to be turned over
there by the troops now going South -- such transportation and animals
to be controlled by your own orders. |
| W. F. Alexander |
| Major & Asst. to the Q. M. Genl. |
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