| Headquarters |
| Charleston, Tenn. {on
the East Tennessee & Georgia RR} |
| October 27, 1863 |
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| Maj. J. J. Reeve |
| Assistant Adjutant-General |
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| Major, |
| I have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 25th instant, touching
the pontoon bridge, and in reply thereto advise you that I
dispatched the first train of cars (flat) that I could command to
Dalton, Ga., for the pontoon-boats. This train left at 2 o'clock
this morning and I expect it to return to-night. If it should return
as promptly as I expect, the pontoon bridge will be in readiness
to-morrow night. |
| Captain Presstman, Engineer
Corps, arrived here last night with two additional companies of
engineers, and the work on the railroad bridge is being prosecuted
with all energy. |
| ***** |
| I have the honor to be, major, very
respectfully, your obedient servant, |
| Marcus J. Wright |
| Brigadier-General, Commanding Post |
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