NP, MAP 10/13/1861

From the Memphis Appeal
 
October 13, 1861
 
Clothing for the Army
   It is absolutely necessary that something be done immediately by the authorities to cause the speedy forwarding of clothes, stores, etc., contributed by the patriotic people to the army, or else there will be suffering in the ranks this winter.  We learn at the passport office that from three to four hundred car loads of clothing, etc., have accumulated at Chattanooga and Knoxville, and that there is a deficiency of locomotives between Knoxville and Bristol {the East Tennessee & Virginia RR}.  Could not some be transferred from the Mississippi Central railroad, where we understand there is a superabundance?       

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