NA, QM 4/28A/1864

Quarter Master General's Department
Richmond, April 28th 1864
  
Maj. R. Rhett  QM
Columbia, S. C.
 
   The President of the S. C. R. R. {South Carolina RR} reports Eleven Thousand bushels corn {about 40 car loads} & fourteen car loads Govt. freight in Depot at Columbia & seventeen car loads corn to be untouched. Why is this detention? {This is almost 5 trains worth}
A. R. Lawton, Q. M. Genl.
Sent by telegram.

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