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Special Orders Concerning Destruction of San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad
A special order directed to the Confederate engineer Col. Lea instructs him to take “the negroes in his charge” to destroy the railroad between Lavaca and Victoria. Detailed instructions about where to bring th enslaved laborers and how to equip them are provided.
E. P. Turner
Records of Texas Governor Pendleton Murrah, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Box 301-44, Folder 8
Published here by W. Caleb McDaniel
December 4, 1863
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