| From the Columbus (Ga.) Times |
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| June 4, 1864 |
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| The Petersburg & Weldon
Railroad {Weldon RR} having been repaired,
(says the Danville Register of the 27th ult..,) the Government is
now using that line exclusively to transport troops, and is sending
commissary and quartermaster's stores over the Piedmont and
{Richmond &} Danville roads. Thus the two
lines of railway, connecting the capital with the Southern States, are
at this emergency fully employed and are of invaluable service in
keeping an army in Virginia. By the one route troops are sent to
reinforce Gen. Lee, and by the other provisions are conveyed to his
army; the more interior line and one least exposed to raids of the
public enemy, being selected for carrying the supplies. The Piedmont
Railroad is now completed, through, owing to the great pressure upon the
rolling stock now employed in bringing corn and bacon from Greensboro'
to Danville, no passenger trains are, for the present, allowed upon the
road; nor are any troops sent by this route, as they were some days ago,
the line being devoted exclusively to one purpose. |
| The necessity for this state
of things, we hope, will not long continue. |
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