| There is no "Standard Rail-Road time" in
the Confederate States, but each rail-road company adopts
independently the time of its own locality, or of that place at
which its principal office is situated. The inconvenience of such
a system, if it can be called one, must be apparent to all, but is
most annoying to persons strangers to the fact. From this cause,
many miscalculations and misconnections have arisen, which not unfrequently have been of serious consequence to individuals, and
have, as a matter of course, brought into disrepute all Rail-road
Guides, which of necessity give the local times. In order to
relieve, in some degree, this anomaly in American rail-roading, we
present the following table of local time, compared with that of
Richmond, Va: |
| Atlanta, Ga |
11:30 |
A. M. |
| Augusta, Ga |
11:43 |
A. M. |
| Beaufort. S. C. |
11:49 |
A. M. |
| Charleston, S. C. |
11:51 |
A. M. |
| Columbia, S. C. |
11:44 |
A. M. |
| Fredericksburg, Va. |
12:00 |
A. M. |
| Galveston, Texas |
10:51 |
A. M. |
| Griffin, Ga. |
11:29 |
A. M. |
| Huntsville, Ala. |
11:23 |
A. M. |
| Jackson, Miss. |
11:10 |
A. M. |
| Jefferson, Mo. |
11:02 |
A. M. |
| Knoxville, Tenn. |
11:35 |
A. M. |
| Little Rock, Ark. |
11:02 |
A. M. |
| Lynchburg, Va. |
11:53 |
A. M. |
| Milledgeville, Ga. |
11:57 |
A. M. |
| Mobile, Ala. |
11:18 |
A. M. |
| Nashville, Tenn. |
11:23 |
A. M. |
| Natchez, Miss. |
11:05 |
A. M. |
| New Orleans, La. |
11:10 |
A. M. |
| Norfolk, Va. |
12:05 |
P. M. |
| Pensacola, Fla. |
11:22 |
A. M. |
| Petersburg, Va. |
11:52 |
A. M. |
| Raleigh, N. C. |
11:55 |
A. M. |
| Savannah, Ga. |
11:46 |
A. M. |
| Tallahassee, Fla. |
11:32 |
A. M. |
| Tuscaloosa, Ala. |
11:20 |
A. M. |
| Wilmington, N. C. |
11:58 |
A. M. |
|
| Copied from HILL & SWAYZE'S CONFEDERATE STATES RAIL-ROAD
& STEAM-BOAT GUIDE, 1862. |
|