WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City,
September 26, 1863 — 2.10 p.m.
General BUFORD,
Commanding at Cairo:
I am informed that there are at Cairo 44 box and flat cars,
5-foot gauge. I want them at Louisville. Can you send them up immediately to be
put on the road to Nashville? If it be possible, do so with the utmost speed,
and report.
EDWIN M. STANTON.
SOURCES: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
30, Part 3 (Serial No. 52), p. 871
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