| From the Savannah Morning News |
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| January 11, 1862 |
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| Charleston & Savannah Railroad |
| The Charleston & Savannah
Railroad is the military backbone of our tide water districts. Without
it General Lee could never have progressed in his arrangements for
defence with that celerity which has enabled him already to pronounce
with confidence upon the safety of Savannah and Charleston. By looking
at the excellent map published by Evans & Cogswell, it can be seen at a
glance that this road is the main artery along which the never-ending
supplies of Quartermaster's, Commissary and Ordnance stores are
delivered within easy access of the hundred camps which dot the seaboard
strip of the main land in St. John's, Colleton, St. Andrew's, St.
Paul's, St. George's, Dorchester, St. Bartholomew's, Prince William's,
St. Helena's, St. Luke's and St. Peter's Parishes. Along this railway
are established the several depots, from which the army is fed, clothed,
transported, and furnished with ammunition; and when General Lee is
whizzing along on a "special," at a speed of twenty-five miles an hour,
doubtless, he involuntarily thanks his stars that he is no longer among
the rugged and pathless wilds of Western Virginia -- than which it would
be hard to imagine a place better adapted to wither the laurels of any
military leader, in these times of steam and telegraph. The attaches
on this railroad are all accommodating and agreeable. Even the "colored
persons" who put on the brakes are polite and attentive. |
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Mercury |
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