OR, Series 1, Vol. 11, Pt 3, Page 507

Richmond, Va., May 11, 1862
 
Major General Huger or the Officer in Command at Suffolk
 
   *** Take up the railroad tracks on both roads east of Suffolk as far as possible, and send the iron of the Seaboard and Roanoke road to Clarksville, and that of the Norfolk and Petersburg road to the junction of the South Side and Richmond and Danville roads. When the troops retire from Suffolk continue the same thing westward, letting the last train take up the iron behind it. Remove the rolling stock of the first road to Weldon or west of it, and that of the other to Petersburg, when the troops retire.
G. W. Randolph
Secretary of War

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