| From the Columbus (Ga.) Times |
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| April 18, 1864 |
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| Wanted |
| I want to hire one hundred
Negro Laborers, Ten Mules Teams, 4 or 6 mules each, and ten Yoke of Oxen
to get and haul Timber for the Railroad Bridge, over the Tombigbee
river, near Demopolis. {Alabama & Mississippi
Rivers RR} |
| I also want to employ fifteen
Carpenters, white men or negroes for the same work. |
| I will pay liberal prices and
furnish rations and quarters for the men. |
| Address me at Demopolis, Ala., care
of Maj. M. Merriwether, Eng'r Corps. |
| W. P. Barker |
| Ag't for A. L. Maxwell |
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