RRBA 1/12/1863

Confederate States of America
Quartermaster Gen. Office
Richmond Janry 12th 1863
 
A. F. Ravenel
President North Eastern RR Co
Charleston, S. C.
 
Sir,
  I have carefully read and considered your letter stating your reasons for rendering your recent accounts for transportation of troops at 3 cents per mile per man, but, with every disposition to exercise liberality, I cannot find in your letter reasons sufficiently strong to justify me in approving the increase rate. If, as I gather from your letter you are enabled by your own rolling stock to supply the deficiencies of the Wilmington & Manchester Road you remedy the difficulty of which you complain and get besides, compensation from that Road for the rolling stock used by it. The rate of through fare Roads as fixed by the RR Convention held at Columbia and agreed to by me, is two cents per mile per man of side lines three cents per mile per man. Your Road is a through fare. From this tariff established by the RRoads themselves, I do not feel authorized to deviate unless upon strong reason making out a case of peculiar hardship. Unless you can present a strong case to me I must regard the Columbia Tariff as applicable to your Road, both for Troops and Freight.
Very respectfully
Your obedient servant
A. Myers QMGen

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