| From the Southern Recorder (Milledgeville, Ga.) |
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| December 20, 1864 |
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| Our Railroads |
| The energy of our people is being
developed in the extensive repairing of our roads. Within a few weeks
Atlanta will again be the center of a vast railroad system. The
Georgia road is to be completed within forty days and the other roads
will unite with it there. By the end of the present week the cars will
be running from Macon to Midway -- the loss of the bridge across
Fishing creek, preventing them from coming into the city. |
| The general destruction of the Central
Railroad, with its bridges, will prevent its being used for many
months, at least. |
| Is it not under the circumstances
advisable, as a military necessity, that the Government now finish the
"Milledgeville Railroad" from Mayfield in Hancock, to
Milledgeville, if not to Macon? |
| The iron for its completion to this point
was purchased by the company prior to the war and was seized in
Charleston for Government purposes. Had this not been done, it would
now have been running to this place -- centrally through the State, a
highway to Virginia, subserving the government purposes, much better
than by the long circuitous route by the way of Millen to Augusta. |
| Let us have a direct inland road to
Richmond via Augusta, Columbia, and Danville, Va. |
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