Lot 228
(CIVIL WAR), Lawton, A.R. Also present is a lengthy endorsement on verso by Bragg's Adjutant. Neatly written and quite choice. Confederate General.
Letter Signed as Quartermaster General. 2 pages, octavo, on official CSA Quartermaster General's Office stationery, Richmond, April 15, 1862, to General Braxton Bragg. Lawton writes to the Confederate General Bragg concerning supply problems as Bragg prepares to defend Georgia against General Sherman:.
"I have the honor to return herewith the several papers from the Commissary Genl. referred to this office by you, with a request that the complaints as to delays in transportation at Augusta be investigated. I beg leave to state that I had caused strict enquiry to be made into this matter some time before these papers were received; and a remedy had already been applied, by changing the officer charged with transferring freight from one R. Road to another at that point. In connection with these oft repeated complaints of the Commissary Dept, I take leave also to enclose a letter (and accompanying papers) [not present] from Capt C.C. Sims Qms, at Augusta, which you will please return to me at your convenience."
Fine.
Estimated Value $700 - 900.
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