| From the Montgomery Mail |
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| November 23, 1862 |
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| How to Destroy a Railroad Track |
| An army correspondent thus
describes the manner in which railroad tracks are destroyed when
military necessity requires such a proceeding: |
| The track is torn up and the
cross-ties pilled up, then the iron rails are laid across the ties,
and fire communicated to the whole, when the iron becomes hot it falls
at both ends, and bends in the shape of the letter V. This renders the
iron worthless until it is taken to the foundry and worked over.
{As proved by the Confederates in Mississippi in
1864, this exaggerates the effort required to restore the iron to
use.} |
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