| Richmond, Va. |
| June 29, 1862 |
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| General Bragg |
| Tupelo, Miss. |
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| Your department is
extended so as to embrace that part of Louisiana east of the
Mississippi, the entire States of Mississippi and Alabama, and the
portion of Georgia and Florida west of the Chattahoochee and
Apalachicola Rivers. You can take charge of the Selma and Meridian
connection, but the only funds appropriated to the work are the
$400,000 authorized by Congress to be loaned to the Alabama &
Mississippi {Rivers} Railroad Company.
They can disburse it under your directions. *** |
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G. W. Randolph
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| Secretary of War
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| {also at Series
1, Vol. 17, Part 2, Page 627}
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