| Transportation Office C. S. A. |
| Quartermasters Department |
| Richmond Va. Jany 27th 1864 |
| |
| Genl. A. R. Lawton |
| Q. M. Genl |
| |
| General, |
| The employees from civil life in this
office are working day and night on an average of twelve hours, --
this being the only office in your Department which attends to
business after night, and their compensation is wholly inadequate to
their support. They have experience & fidelity and remain for the
sake of the cause; but will seek more profitable employment unless
their compensation is increased. Can you not make them Agents of the
Dept. and give them $140.-- per month? I trust they may be retained in
service. Without them they present press of business could not be
attended to. |
| Respectfully |
| D. H. Wood |
| Maj & Q. M. |
| |
| {on back of document} |
| Approved to date from 1st instant |
| A. R. Lawton |
| Q. M. Genl. |
| 27 Jany 64 |
| In view of the peculiar circumstances. |
| Approved |
| J. A. Seddon |
| Sec of War |
| 28 Jany 64 |