| From the Daily Bulletin (Charlotte, N.
C.) |
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| June 6, 1863 |
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| A Railroad to Columbia |
| At intervals, for many years,
there have been spasmodic efforts to get a direct railroad line from
Augusta to Columbia. If any one will take a map and draw a line from
Richmond to Mobile or Vicksburg, the importance of this work will be
apparent. When the Danville road is done, and the link from Warrenton
to Macon is complete, this road from Augusta to Columbia will be the
only break in a direct and almost air-line road through the centre of
the Confederacy to the Mississippi. |
| At present, the circuitous
route by way of Branchville and Kingsville makes three sides of an
irregular square, and consumes several hours of time and about a
hundred miles in distance that would be saved by the proposed road. It
is, perhaps, an inopportune time to complete the road -- owing to the
scarcity of iron -- but the stock might be raised, the grading done,
and everything put in a state of forwardness for the opening of our
ports, or the time when the pressure on our iron works for war
material shall have subsided. We invite attention to an article from
the Columbia Carolinian on this subject. We cannot doubt that
the capitalists of Augusta will extend liberal aid to the work. |
| Augusta Constitutionalist |
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