| South-Western Rail Road Company |
| Office, Macon, Ga., Jany 5th 1862 {this
date is not correct -- it had to be 1863} |
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|
Col. W M Wadley
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| A A G C. S. Richmond |
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| Dear Sir, |
| I wish you to get detailed from the army
for the service of this company the following persons: |
| Charles A Matthews, Company C 2nd Geo Battalion |
| Elijah
Taylor
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| James W Green, Company I, 4th Georgia Regiment |
| Matthews is a young man who served his
time in our Machine shops and would have been out of his time in a
few months when he volunteered in the service. |
| J. W. Green is an old runner was in our
service several years. |
| Elijah Taylor is also an old runner of
ours and I learn has been in the hospital for several months. We are
short of runners and very much in want of Machinists or I would not
ask for the detail of these persons. Our business up to six months
since was very light and I made no objection to our men volunteering
in the countrys service, but we are now very much pressed with
government freights and our Machinery has run down and we are in
want of men to repair as far as possible our Machines &c. |
| We find it almost impossible to get
string timber to keep our Road in repair owing to several of the
millers who have been sawing for us having gone to the war. |
| Mr. John Jackson is the owner of a saw
mill near our Road that sawed for us and his mill is now idle. I
would be glad you would have him detailed to saw for us. |
| Yours Truly |
| Virgil Powers |
| Engr & Supt |