| From the Daily Express (Petersburg, Va.) |
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| May 8, 1862 |
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| Railroads and Military Transportation |
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Repeated instances having recently occurred where
military officials have attempted to assume control of trains,
thereby endangering life and rendering damage to rolling stock
imminent, Gen. Robt. E. Lee has issued the following very
appropriate order: |
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To avoid the danger, if not the certainty of frequent
collisions, and the consequent destruction of life and property, as
well as obstruction to all transportation, it is absolutely
necessary that the movements of railroad trains should be under
one undivided control. These considerations make it imperative
that all trains should be regulated in their movements and speed,
only, by their conductors and engineers, in accordance with the
Regulations and Time Tables of the company. All the operations of a
road should be controlled by its Superintendent or other authorized
officer; and all orders for transportation of every kind, and the
movement of every train, will be directed through him, when the
exigencies of the service demand a variation from the regular
schedule. Disregard of this rule will inevitably be attended with
disastrous consequences. |
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