| Engineer Bureau |
| Richmond, Decr. 26th, 1862 |
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| Lieut. Sommerfield Smith, Capt. Engr. |
| (Hotel?) Waynesboro, Va. |
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| Your dispatch received. You can contract for 500 or 600
tons of Ice to be delivered on the Va. Central R. Rd. The price as
agreed upon for delivery on Canal I now think too low. You can go up
to two cents pr lb. {This would required about
62 to 75 car loads -- that is 4 or 5 full trains of 15 cars each.} |
| J. F. Gilmer |
| Col. & Chf Engineer Bureau |
| {Other documents show that the
Bureau reconstructed a large ice house in Richmond and stocked it with this
ice for the comfort of the patients in hospitals and the children in
orphanages.} |