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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 6 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 1 1 Browse Search
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was not safe, they might be sent up on the Richmond and Danville Railroad. As the evacuation of Richmond was then actively progressing it was impracticable to move those supplies. . . . In reply to your question with regard to the establishment of a depot of supplies at Amelia Court-House, I have to say that I had no information of any such requisition or demand upon the bureau. Major J. H. Claiborne, assistant commissary general, in a letter to Geenral J. M. St. John, from Richmond, June 3, 1873, wrote: No order was received by me, and (with full opportunities of information if it had been given) I had no knowledge of any plan to send supplies to Amelia Court-House. Under such circumstances, with transportation afforded, there could readily have been sent about three hundred thousand rations, with due regard to the demand upon this post. During the retreat, supplies were found at Pamphlin's Depot, Farmville, Danville, Salisbury, and Charlotte. Major B. P. Noland, chief