Summary:
Confederate Quartermaster A. C. Myers writes Captain C. R. Mason in October, 1861, charging him with guarding and maintaining roads to Staunton. Mason must rebuild bridges and embankments to allow supplies from Staunton to move along the roads.

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Capt. C. R. MASON,
Assistant Quartermaster, now at Richmond, Va.:

RICHMOND, VA.,

October 1, 1861.

SIR:

You are assigned to the special duty of superintending the road from Staunton to Greenbrier River, the headquarters of Gen. H. R. Jackson, and from the Warm Springs to Huntersville; also to the headquarters of Gen. Loring. It will be your especial care to repair the roads and bridges wherever it is required, and to keep them in order for the transportation of supplies from Staunton to the several headquarters named above. You will regild the bridges and renew the embankments where required on account of the late freshest. To enable you to perform this work thoroughly you are, with the consent of the governor of Virginia, empowered to use all the appliances for work and labor that have been in use on the State road, and to hire or purchase, as you may regard best, wagons, carts, and teams, and all additional labor you think necessary.

A. C. MYERS,
Acting Quartermaster-Gen.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 5, Serial No. 5, Pages 888, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.