Viewing page 115 of 237

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

39 Park Row
New York, March 7th 1867

Col. C. C. Sibley,
Savannah, Ga.

Dear Sir:

We have ordered to Atlanta from Cincinnati 4,000 bushels of corn, in all, and the whole ought to have been there some days ago.  The "Memphis", a government steamer, took about 6,500 bushels, on Tuesday last to be delivered to your care in Savannah.  We have the promise of another ship from Secretary Welles, in the course of next week, and we hope then to send you, another lot.  In distributing the corn please note the necessities of those counties referred to in our "Facts about the Famine" a copy of which I send you.

Our Cincinnati arrangements have not worked well, and we shall hereafter send corn directly from this City to Savannah, leaving you to give it the direction which will help