| From the Greensboro (N. C.) Patriot |
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| April 10, 1862 |
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| First Train Over the Piedmont Railroad |
| One day last week a cavalry company
arrived here from the West on the North Carolina Railroad, and being
anxious to arrive at Richmond at the earliest possible date took the
Piedmont Railroad line to Danville; true, the Road is not finished yet
but through the assistance of Capt. James Sloan the efficient Quarter
Master of this place, the company was enabled to proceed immediately
to Danville. |
| Although the implacable enemies of the
Greensboro & Danville Railroad enterprise are seeking as a last
resort to defeat this great work, every possible effort to get pos??
of the Piedmont Railroad charter, and to divert the Road to other
points ??? the main destroy the usefulness of the measure; yet the
traveling public ??gly indicate the route that nature has laid out for
the great Northern and Southern thoroughfare. People may try to make
water run up hill; but it is generally rather expensive to do so. |
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