To the Friends of the Soldiers throughout the Confederacy.--
Quartermaster Gen'ls Department,Railroad Bureau,Richmond, Feb. 28, 1864.
The friends and relatives of soldiers in the Army of Northern Virginia are hereby notified that an arrangement has this day been effected with the Southern Express Company to carry will packages of food and wearing apparel to Richmond, Va.
To secure the advantages thus obtained through the Express Company, the following instructions must be observed:
Packages must not contain more than one hundred pounds; be well secured and plainly market, and sent at the expense of the shipper to either of the Soldiers' Relief Associations, which are as follows:
In North Carolina, at Raleigh; in South Carolina at Columbia; in Georgia, at Augusta; in Alabama at Montgomery; or to any other point at which one of these Associations have an office.
The Agents of these Associations will there into charge of them and ship daily by Southern Ex
