NA, G 10/16/1863

Augusta Ga October 16th 1863
 
Major Chas J Carrington, QM
Richmond, Va.
 
Major,
   I beg leave to call your attention, and through you the attention of the Government, to the enclosed letter from George Yonge Esqr Genl. Supt: Georgia Railroad Company addressed to me for permission to ship in Government vessels a small amount of cotton with which to obtain supplies in Europe absolutely and imperatively demanded for the future operations of that Road, and to respectfully recommend it to the favorable consideration of the Department.
   The material necessary for the repairs of Engines, Cars, Roadbed &c of our Railways has become exhausted in the South, the roads are rapidly becoming powerless to move the stores required by the service, and unless the Government gives them the aid to obtain the necessary supplies, consequences of the most serious nature will ensue, and more rapidly than those not posted can suppose.
   The Georgia Road has not only devoted its entire energies to the transportation demanded by the Gov't over its own roadbed, but when we were most sorely pressed here for means to move corn for which the Army in Virginia were suffering, and which the regular lines were unable to move, Mr Yonge, upon my representing these facts, mops patriotically and promptly placed at my disposal three of his Engines and trains to run over other roads, by which means we were enabled to get forward the supplies and relieve the wants of the Army, and that to at great inconvenience and loss to his own Road.
   At this writing his Road is devoted to the transportation required by the wants of the service, to the exclusion of more lucrative employment, hence I take pleasure in recommending this application, so reasonable in its character, to the favorable consideration of the Department.
Very Respectfully
Your Ob't Sv't
Geo. W. Grice
Major & QM

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