WASHINGTON, May 25 – Ordered by virtue of the authority vested in act of Congress the President took military possession of all the railroads in the United States from and after this date until further ordered. And directs that the respective railroad companies their officers and servants, shall hold themselves in readiness for the transportation of troops, munitions of war, &c., as may be ordered by military authorities, to the exclusion of all other business.
By order of the Secretary of War.
(Signed.)
M. C. MEIGS
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 4
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