Miltiary Construction Corps “Half Crazy” to Construct Road through Petersburg

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Here’s a telegram written by the Head Engineer of the Military Railroad at City Point to Rufus Ingalls, Chief Quartermaster of the Armies before Richmond.

Half Crazy to Construct Road through Petersburg

 To General Rufus Ingalls,
 At Genl. Grants Head Quarters
We have plenty of Bridge Material and 1250 men in Construction Corps half Crazy to get orders to construct road through Petersburg.
 C S McAlpine,
 ——– Engineer

This message was sent on the same day that the Union Armies broke through the Confederate lines just south of Petersburg.