DaveBrt
1st Lieutenant
- Joined
- Mar 6, 2010
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
Rarely do we get a clear answer as to how a procedure was conducted during the war, but here is one:
Register of Letters Received by the QM General
Richmond, Va. August 13, 1863 (This is a reply to a letter, but which one is not clear)
Respy retd to the Qr Mr Genls Office. Crane is surely necessary at Charlotte where the guns are rolled from one car to another {because of the gauge and company change}, but I have directed enquiries into its necessity & hope in a few days to report. In this city the guns are loaded from the ground -- a much more difficult job & if a crane is erected anywhere it should be here. I have requested the Supt at Columbia to run cars through to Charleston {ie run the Charlotte & South Carolina RR car through on the South Carolina RR, rather than transfer the guns when the guns went from one road to the other} until I had time to make some definite arrangement with them.
F W Sims Maj & QM
Register of Letters Received by the QM General
Richmond, Va. August 13, 1863 (This is a reply to a letter, but which one is not clear)
Respy retd to the Qr Mr Genls Office. Crane is surely necessary at Charlotte where the guns are rolled from one car to another {because of the gauge and company change}, but I have directed enquiries into its necessity & hope in a few days to report. In this city the guns are loaded from the ground -- a much more difficult job & if a crane is erected anywhere it should be here. I have requested the Supt at Columbia to run cars through to Charleston {ie run the Charlotte & South Carolina RR car through on the South Carolina RR, rather than transfer the guns when the guns went from one road to the other} until I had time to make some definite arrangement with them.
F W Sims Maj & QM
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