| Quartermaster General's Department |
| Richmond, March 18, 1862 |
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| Gen. J. E. Johnston |
| Commanding |
| Culpeper C. H. |
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| Gen. Holmes reports seven million five
hundred thousand pounds Quartermaster & Commissary stores at
Fredericksburg that should be hauled to some depot to be designated by
you. Where will you have a depot for these supplies? If they are to be
transported from Fredericksburg, eight freight cars & two twenty
ton engines should be sent here from Gordonsville. There are neither
cars nor engines to do the work on the Fredericksburg R. Rd. {Richmond,
Fredericksburg & Potomac RR}. It is necessary that you give
the order for the cars and engines to be sent to Richmond. The store
houses on the road are all full. Shall the stores be brought to
Richmond? |
| A. C. Myers, Q. M. Genl |
| Sent by telegram |
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