NA, QM 7/21A/1863

Quartermaster General's Department
Richmond July 21st 1863
 
Major Huston Lee
QM
Charleston, S. C.
 
Major,
   A letter from Henry M. Drane Esqr, General Superintendent of the Wilmington & Manchester Rail Road Company to Captain McKinney Chief Commissary at Wilmington, North Carolina, has been referred to me from the War Department. This letter states that the Wilmington & Manchester Road is so deficient in cars, that it is unable without assistance from other Roads to transport necessary supplies for the Government. It states that the Georgia, and South Carolina Roads have each a large stock of cars, and could, between them, furnish the needed number, twelve, each Road furnishing six. Mr. Drane expresses the opinion, that with twelve box cars, all the required transportation can be furnished.
   You are instructed, immediately upon the receipt of this to arrange with the South Carolina Rail Road for the use on the Wilmington & Manchester Road, of such box cars as can be spared, and to communicate on the subject with Major J. T. Winnemore, Quarter Master at Augusta, Georgia, to whom I have given like instructions in regard to the Georgia Rail Road.
A. C. Myers, Q. M. Genl.

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