FHS, FL 5/7/1863

Executive Department
Tallahassee May 7th 1863
 
Brigr Genl Finnegan
Lake City
 
General,
   I would respectfully invite your attention to the enclosed copy of a letter from Lt Gift. The scarcity of iron seems to give a peculiar charm to the iron in the R. R. alluded to {Florida RR} for all important war purposes.
   Your intimate relations with Mr Yulee, and knowledge of facts connected with the ownership of the iron, induces my appeal to you for the necessary assistance to obtain it for the use of the Government.
   However much Mr Yulee may have been opposed to the claims of R. R. Companies, which he may have considered based upon the hopes of private benefit, I will not permit myself to believe, that he will not cheerfully yield the iron to any thing else that he owns or controls, to sustain the Confederate States in their defence.
   Will you do me the favor to write to him on the subject and inform me of the result.
I have the honor to be
General
Respectfully
John Milton
Gov of Fla

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