NA, ENG 6/9B/1863

Engineer Bureau
June 9th, 1863
 
Endorsement on letter from Maj. Genl. S. G. French, dated Petersburg, Va. May 25th 1863 relative to operations in the direction of Suffolk and taking up of rail road iron.
   "Resp returned to the Hon. Secretary of War, no effort was spared to remove the iron from the Norfolk & Petersburg Road and from the Seaboard {& Roanoke} Road while Genl. Longstreet was in command, but his efforts, assisted by the Engineers under his control, were given to the collection of supplies, for the army, these being considered of the first importance. Every thing possible with the Engineers has been done to save the iron in question, and I am now able to report that a large part of the iron from the Seaboard R. Road is on the right bank of the Blackwater.
J. F. Gilmer
Col. of Engrs. & Chf of Bureau

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