NP, SFU 9/24/1861

From the Southern Federal Union (Milledgeville, Ga.)
 
September 24, 1861
 
Macon and Warrenton Road   {Milledgeville RR}
   The Warrenton Clipper, of the 14th, says the engineer ran the first train on the Macon and Warrenton Railroad the previous day with five car loads of the heaviest T iron rails ever brought to Georgia. It was a part of this famous lot of iron of which the world-renowned Stephens Battery {the Ironclad Battery in Charleston Harbor} was constructed.
   This new Road, notwithstanding the pressure of the times, continues to progress, and should no untoward accident occur Sparta will soon be attached to the balance of the busy world, by the best and most substantial Railroad in the Confederate States. It is almost an air line from Warrenton to Sparta, famous for its deep cuts and high embankment.
   The enterprise will be pushed on with all possible speed to Macon.

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