| From the Charleston Mercury |
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| January 20, 1865 |
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| The Columbia and Augusta Railroad
{South Carolina RR} |
| We have been much on the Ridge of late,
and in that section, this important road is coming on finely. The
gentlemen who have contracts for work on the road between Captain Clint
Ward's and Lieut. Louis Youngblood's (a distance of twelve miles), are
working steadily and energetically. Several of them informed us that the
grading along the entire track was at least half finished. During the
late Legislature, Mr. Gardner, Chief Engineer of this work, informed the
Committee appointed to consider the matter, that with 2800 slaves, the
tithes of Lexington and Edgefield being appropriated to feeding them,
the road could be completed by the middle or last of May. Whether such a
force has been, or is to be, put at his disposal, we have not
ascertained. |
| Edgefield Advertiser |
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