| From the Selma Morning Reporter |
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| April 8, 1864 |
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| Wanted |
| I want to hire one hundred
Negro Laborers, ten Mule Teams, four or six mules each, and ten yoke of
Oxen, to get and haul timber for the railroad bridge over the Tombigbee
river, near Demopolis. |
| I also want to employ fifty
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 Major M. Meriwether, Engineer Corps. |
| W. P. Barker |
| Agent for A. L. Maxwell |
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