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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF WESTERN VIRGINIA,
Dublin, February 3, 1864.
Lieutenant-General LONGSTREET,
Morristown, Tenn.:
Your telegram of yesterday just received. Three hundred and forty muskets, caliber 69, will be sent to you without delay. That is all I can send now.
SAM. JONES,
Major-General.
Official Records, Series I., Vol. 32, Part 2, Page 668.
It is a striking commentary on the state of the Confederacy's supply system that Longstreet had to ask Jones for excess weapons from his department and received in return only 340 muskets of 69 caliber.
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