Headquarters, Near Fairfax Station
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September 22, 1861 |
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H. P.
Benjamin |
| Acting Secretary of War |
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| Sir, |
| I had the honor to receive this morning your
letter of the 19th instant and the correspondence inclosed with it. |
| The President had already, by telegraph,
given me orders on the same subject. As evidence against the
correctness of the charge, I laid before him letters from Major
Cabell, chief quartermaster, and Mr. Evans, agent of the railroad
company. Copies of the same letters are respectfully submitted to
you. I hope that they may convince you that the negligence with
which we are charged does not exist. I beg leave to suggest that
flour could be bought at very moderate prices in the valley of the
Shenandoah, and brought to us, with certainty as to time, on the
Manassas Gap Railroad.
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| Very respectfully, your obedient servant |
| J. E.
Johnston |
| General |
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