Brigade Quarter Master's Office;

Corinth Miss March 9. 1862.

 

General,

            In obedience to your instructions of this morning directing me to ascertain the amount of rolling stock which might be made rapidly available for the movement of troops by rail from this point, I have the honor to report:

 

Memphis and Charleston Rail Road. Such has been the pressure upon the Rail Road stock of this Company for some days past, in transporting troops, and a very large amount of public supplies from points to the eastward of Corinth, to Granada, Miss, that the Assistant Superintendent M^r Charles Williams, informs me that it is extremely difficult for him to make any reliable estimate of the number of cars to be found at any time at a given point, as the rolling stock is almost continually in transit. He feels confident however that he could on a notice of twelve hours furnish from fifty to eighty cars, with the requisite supply of locomotives, provided the rolling stock to the eastward is not detained by Gen. Johnston at Huntsville.

 

Mobile and Ohio Rail Road. After waiting several hours / for [paper cut off] stock of this road which I requested the Assistant Superintendent M^r Fregnenius to furnish I am informed that through misapprehension on his part it has been sent directly to yourself.

                                                                                   

I am Very Respectfully

Your Obt. Svt.

John Claiborne

Maj. & Brig. Qr. M.

 

Brig. Gen. D. Ruggles,

            Commanding 1^st Corps, 2^nd Grand

Division, Army of the Mississippi,

Corinth Miss

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