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Waynesboro May 1st/62
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| James M Ranson |
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| Dr Sir, |
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Enclosed I send you a Statement of the flour transaction
which I hope will enable you to set your matters all right, if you
have not already done so. |
| Yours in haste |
| P. S. Seabury |
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| On the 14th day of March 1862, I was
ordered by Capt R. J. Echols A. Q. M. at Strasburg to take charge of
five hundred & twenty four barrels of flour, then in the cars
{6 1/2 car loads} (the flour was brought
from Piedmont, Happy Creek, Markham & River Station) and proceed to Mt.
Jackson; have it unloaded and stored in the best place I could find. The
flour was unloaded on Sunday the 16th in my absence; it was placed in
the vacant lot adjoining the depot; Capt Echols being ordered to New
Market, left me at Mt. Jackson to attend to the forwarding of the flour
to Staunton. On the 20th I recd of Capt R. J. Echols fourteen wagons to
be loaded with flour, but was ordered by Maj. John A. Harman Chf Q. M.
V. D. to turn over all the transportation in my possession belonging to
Capt Echols to Maj Hawks. I did so. I left Mt. Jackson on the 23rd but
before I left all the flour had been removed, some of it I am sure and I
think the whole of it by Capt F A Briscoe AQM of the post. The above is
a correct statement according to the best of my knowledge and belief. |
| P. S. Seabury |
| Clerk in Q M Dept Strasburg Va |
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