| Quartermaster General's Department |
| Richmond, Sep. 14, 1863 |
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| Major A. H. Cole |
| Inspector General |
| Field Transportation |
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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 won orders. |
| W. F. Alexander, Major & Asst. to the Q. M. Genl. |
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