To Gen Milroy From LB Pierce June 14 1863

              Laport, Ind. Sunday 10 O.C. p.m. 
                                                   June 14th, 1863 
General 
	I left your Hd. Qurs. The 10th inst. fully  
intent upon riding nights and working days in  
order to enable me to do what I was sent to do  
and return in less time than you expected. 
	I now find that I did not fully und- 
erstand the amt. of work I had before me. 
	Almost every one of the families to whom  
the goods were sent reside from ten (10) to (25)  
miles distance from any r. r. and all over  
a hundred miles by rail from each other. 
	I left Martinsburg night of the 10th did  
not reach Cleveland until the 12th on act  
of detention on B. & O. R. R.  Found that Dr. Pixley  
lived twenty (20) miles out in the country, got  
a team and succeeded in getting (as Lock says)  
all the goods back to Cleveland and reshipped  
to Martinsburg in care of Gov. Agt.  I think  
we got all at all courts I will give $500.00  
for the lot reshipped from Dr. Pixley’s homes. 
	I arrived here today, Dr. Meeker’s