D, GEO 2/16/1865

Augusta Ga.
Febry 16th 1865
 
Col. Geo. Wm. Brent
A. A. G.
 
Colonel,
   In obedience to your orders to proceed to Camak & Mayfield to ascertain the causes of the delay in the shipping of troops from those points, I have the honor to report.
   At Mayfield {on the Milledgeville RR} there is no detention whatever. There is regularly one train daily for Camak with a sufficient no. of cars to transport the Troops as they arrive, a distance of fourteen miles. There is a very competent officer on duty at that point, (Maj Throckmorton) who rushes the troops forward as rapidly as they arrive. At Camak {on the Georgia RR} only one delay has occurred which was in the moving of Genl Walthals command, caused by the delay of the trains from above on the Georgia Road ??? assigned from the fact that the supply of wood & water from Union Point has been consumed by foreign trains running on that section of the road transporting the supplies & stock of these foreign trains. Now that the emergency has passed there is no occasion for any future delays.
   All of the regular organized troops except Browns & Frenches Divisions & the artillery have arrived & now that only stragglers & furloughed men are coming in there will be at all times a sufficient number of trains daily to meet this want.
   The Ordnance stores are arriving at Mayfield daily & I understand Genl Hill had ordered all stores of that description stopped at Camak but I do not think there is storage room sufficient to make these stores safe at that point & would respectfully suggest some change in the order.
I have the honor to be Col.
Very Respectfully
Your obt Svt
Gus A. Henry Jr.
Lt. Col. & ???

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