| Abbeville SC Mch 21 1865 |
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| Major Chas S. Carrington |
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Richmond
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| I reached here yesterday and an
opportunity presenting to forward this by Maj Bryan I have time only
to say that there is not a wagon running on the route between this
place {on the Greenville & Columbia RR} and
Washington Ga {on the Georgia RR} the
only connection between the South & SW and the armies in Va
& NC. |
| I understood while in Richmond that the
Qr Mr Genl had ordered a large wagon train on this route, yet at
this date not one has appeared. Capt Venable has run his four wagons
until the animals are exhausted. Unless a train is established at
once to bring the supplies over how it is possible for the
armies to be fed? The Engineers Dept have placed a pontoon bridge
over the Savannah River upon my return to Chester will give you a
detail report of the condition of the country means of
transportation &c &c |
| Very Hurriedly |
| & Truly yrs |
| Geo. W. Grice |
| Maj & QM |
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