NP, AC 1/19/1865

From the Augusta Constitutionalist
 
January 19, 1865
 
The Columbia and Augusta Railroad   {Columbia & Augusta RR}
   We have been much on the Ridge of late, says the Edgefield Advertiser, and in that section, this important road is coming on finely. The gentlemen who have contracts for work on the Road between Capt. Clint. Ward's and Lieut. Louis Youngblood's, (a distance of twelve miles,) are working steadily and energetically. Several of them informed us that the grading (along the entire track) was, at least, half finished. During the late Legislature, Mr. Gardner, chief engineer of this work, informed the Committee appointed to consider the matter, that with 2,800 slaves (the tithes of Lexington and Edgefield being appropriated to feeding them,) the road could be completed by the middle or last of May. Whether such a force has been, or is to be, put at his disposal, we have not ascertained. Surely, if either the Government or the Company have the merest ordinary energy, this now all-important route will be very rapidly pushed through to completion. We are under the impression that it will be.

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