NP, MT 7/21/1863

From the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph
 
July 21, 1863
 
The Call on Rail Roads
   In obedience to a call made upon the different Rail Roads, throughout the State, by Adjutant Gen. Wayne for their employees to organize themselves into companies for home defense, a large meeting of the hands employed on the Macon & Western Rail Road was held last Saturday in Macon, which resulted in the enrollment of about ninety-five members, and we learn that the number will be increased to over a hundred.
   The men on the Central {(of Georgia)} Rail Road are also preparing themselves to form a company, which we hear, will number over a hundred and fifty men.
   It appears that there has been a special letter written, by Gen. Wayne, to the superintendents of the different Rail Roads, assuring them that the companies so formed shall be used exclusively for the protection of their own roads, and, therefore, there will be no backwardness, we hope, on the part of our rail-road men in uniting themselves into corps.

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