| From the Charleston Mercury |
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| April 11, 1864 |
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| The Piedmont Railroad, as the new
Confederate Danville connection is called, will be of vital importance
in the event of the lower route via Wilmington and Weldon being seized,
but it is only in that event that it can be so, from the fact that
although it will furnish a double line between Richmond and Kingsville
it will there unite with a single line through South Carolina. Perhaps,
however, the pressure on the roads might be lightened by bringing all
the freight and produce from Eastern and Southeastern Georgia and
Eastern Alabama by way of Savannah, Charleston and Florence to
Wilmington, and thence via Weldon and Petersburg to Virginia, while all
other freight from Georgia and points South would come by way of Augusta
to Columbia, and so by the Charlotte & South Carolina Railroad, the
North Carolina Railroad and the Danville connection and Richmond &
Danville Railroad to Richmond. There is less than ten miles of the
piedmont road to be finished. |
| Wilmington Journal |
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