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[Identification of item], in the John Marshall Otey Letter #5305-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Purchased from B & L Rootenberg, December 2006 (Acc. 100555).

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• Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Transportation.
• Goldsboro (N.C.)--History.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Otey, John Marshall, d. 1883.
• Railroads--Confederate States of America.
• Willis, E., fl. 1865.

• John Marshall Otey Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

John Marshall Otey was assistant adjutant general under General P. G. T. Beauregard during the Civil War.

The collection consists of one letter, 10 March 1865, from E. Willis to Colonel John Marshall Otey (J. M. Otey), discussing the difficulties facing railroad transportation and the movement of troops, artillery, and provisions during the Civil War. The letter specifically discusses orders from General Braxton Bragg to detain trains at Goldsboro, N.C.