| Confederate States, Quartermaster's
Department |
| Railroad Bureau |
| Richmond, April 1st 1864 |
| |
| Brig. Genl. A. R. Lawton |
| Q. M. G. |
| |
| General, |
| The requirements of the
Commander of the local forces at Augusta Ga. that the employees of the
Georgia Railroad have weekly drills is working an injury to
transportation and I ask that they be excused from this military duty. |
| If this road was only engaged
in its own repairs this entreaty would not be made, but the machinery of
two refugee roads, the Nashville & Chattanooga, and E. T. & Ga.
{East Tennessee & Georgia} RRds, is
repaired in the shops of this Co. and it is important that no time
should be lost, except in cases of extreme necessity. |
| It is therefore respectfully
recommended that the employees of this Co. be excused from the weekly
drills. |
| I am, General, |
| Very respy |
| Yr &c |
| F. W. Sims |
| Lt. Col. &c |
| |
| {on back of document} |
| Respectfully referred to the Adjt & Inspr
Genl with the request that the commandant of the post at Augusta be
directed to excuse these men except in cases of emergency |
| A R Lawton |
| QM Genl |
| 6 Apl 64 |
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