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e been met from the Richmond reserve with transportation on south-bound trains, and most assuredly so previous to General Longstreet's movement. On the morning of the 3d the Commissary General left Richmond and joined General R. E. Lee at Amelia Springs. There were at that time about eighty thousand rations at Farmville, there held on trains for immediate use. On the morning of the 6th the Commissary General asked General Lee whether he should send those rations down the railroad or hold tRichmond at one o'clock of the night Richmond was evacuated, with orders from you to make Lynchburg my headquarters, and be ready to forward supplies from that point to the army. I never heard of any order for the accumulation of supplies at Amelia Springs. Lewis E. Harvie, a distinguished citizen of Virginia who at the close of the war was president of the Richmond and Danville and Piedmont Railroads, wrote to General St. John on January 1, 1876. From his letter I made the following extra