| Received at Richd Jany 12 1864 at ... o'clock, ... minutes, |
| By telegraph from Charlotte 12. To
Gen A R Lawton QMG |
| |
| The Charlotte & South Carolina Rail Road still
taking forward no Govt stores twenty one hundred sacks salt fifteen
thousand grain sack one columbiad & other stores now here
waiting shipment also no corn shipped for Richmond for past two
weeks for want of transportation |
| R J Echols |
| Maj & QM |
| {File data on reverse} R.
J. Echols |
| Charlotte Jany 12th 64 |