| From the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph |
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| July 21, 1863 |
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| The Call on Rail Roads |
| In obedience to a call made
upon the different Rail Roads, throughout the State, by Adjutant Gen.
Wayne for their employees to organize themselves into companies for
home defense, a large meeting of the hands employed on the Macon &
Western Rail Road was held last Saturday in Macon, which resulted in
the enrollment of about ninety-five members, and we learn that the
number will be increased to over a hundred. |
| The men on the Central {(of
Georgia)} Rail Road are also preparing themselves to form a
company, which we hear, will number over a hundred and fifty men. |
| It appears that there has been
a special letter written, by Gen. Wayne, to the superintendents of the
different Rail Roads, assuring them that the companies so formed shall
be used exclusively for the protection of their own roads, and,
therefore, there will be no backwardness, we hope, on the part of our
rail-road men in uniting themselves into corps. |
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