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Corinth 6 May 62
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| Genl G. T. Beauregard |
| Comdng Corinth |
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| General, |
| In obedience to your order to
Major R B Hurt Military Superintendent of R Road directing a special
agt to be dispatched to Meridian to look after certain ordnance
stores, marked to Col. Hunt en rout from Vicksburg to Columbus Miss.
having been charged with this duty, I proceeded on the 3rd inst to the
former place and on arriving ascertained that said stores, consisting
of thirteen car loads, had been delayed at Meridian for several days,
but had been forwarded to their point of destination on Monday the
28th ult. The agt of the M. & O. R Road {Mobile
& Ohio RR} informed me this delay was unavoidable in
consequence of all the trains during that time being heavily loaded
with either Government stores or Troops. That he proposed detaining
the trains containing the stores and attaching them to passenger
trains, but the officer in charge was unwilling to such arrangements
and in consequence time of their transportation was necessarily
postponed. The Statement of the Agent of the Southern R. Road concurs
with the above. |
| Respectfully General |
| Your obt Servt |
| R M Burton |
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