| The Confederate States |
| To A. J. Ward |
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Head Quarters Spaights Battalion
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Beaumont{, Texas} Oct 20 1862
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Special Order
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No. 40
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Lieut. B. W. Brown A. A. Q. M. will procure
transportation & cause to be delivered to the Steamer
"Sunflower" eighty bars rail road iron {enough
to lay about 1,000 feet of track, both rails} to be conveyed to
the Battery at Grigsbys Bluff on the Neches River.
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By Command of
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A. W. Spaight
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Lt. Col. Commanding
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J. J. Hering
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Lt & Adjt.
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