MA, MC 9/17/1862

Office of the Mississippi Central Railroad Company
Holly Springs, Sept. 17th 1862
 
Maj Kernand,
 
Dear Sir
   In consequence of the refusal of the Auditing Officer of the Quarter Master Generals Department to allow any claim for Transportation not required by a Quarter Master and our frequent inability to procure such requisition although we held a Commanding Officers order for it, I sometime since ordered the Agents of the road not to forward Government Freights & our Conductors to pass no one on Government account without a Quarter Masters requisition for Transportation. The order of mine I understand to be in strict accordance with the request of the Q. M. General.
   In regard to the Waggons & Teams detained at Canton, they came there without notice or without requisition -- on one Train & only one of them. The Agent of the Road at that place Telegraphed here for instructions, 

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