Raleigh, March 25, 1865
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| Col. Archer Anderson |
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| I am using every exertion
with all except North Carolina Railroad engines to move to Raleigh
supplies now accumulated at Tarborough and Weldon, and which are
coming in daily from the country to those depots. Do you mean your
telegram merely to stimulate my exertions, or do you wish me to use
supplies coming to Tarborough, Weldon, and other depots and remove
rapidly what is already accumulated? There is already at depots more
than can be moved in five days. The North Carolina engines can stop
hauling to Greensborough, in whole or in part, and aid in removing
to Raleigh. Or do you wish me to move at once all valuable engines,
shop machinery, and cars from Eastern North Carolina to save
equipments abandoned in that section; and if so, am I to move all,
or risk what is necessary to supply W. H. F. Lee's cavalry at Stony
Creek? |
| Jno. Robinson |
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