| From the Selma Morning Reporter |
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| April 10, 1861 |
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| The M. & O. R. R., in a Military Point
of View {Mobile & Ohio RR} |
| The importance of the M. &
O. R. R. in a military point of view, has been recently thoroughly and
practically established. Bodies of troops from North Alabama and
Mississippi during the last week have been transported over it at the
rate of several hundred per day with facility and dispatch. There has
been no detention, delays, or difficulties of any sort worthy of
mention on the part of the company in transacting the business. The
Assistant Superintendent, Mr. John W. Goodwin, in the absence of the
Chief Engineer, has been active and attentive, as he always is, in the
management of the business. He says that the road could transport
20,000 troops over it in a week, if the public service required it. |
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