| From the Southern Federal Union
(Milledgeville, Ga.) |
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| May 28, 1861 |
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| Macon & Augusta Railroad {Milledgeville
RR} |
| We are gratified to learn from
the Chief Engineer of the Macon & Augusta Railroad, (Mr.
Hazlehurst) that despite the troubles of the country, the work on the
road has been prosecuted with unabated vigor. The progress making
augurs well for the strength of the enterprise, and must assure all
that on the first return of peace, the work so important to Macon,
Augusta and Charleston will be finished with great dispatch. The
entire line has been located; the grading and masonry on the twenty
miles between Warrenton and Sparta is nearly completed, and, fifty
miles of iron of an extremely heavy pattern paid for and
delivered. A portion of the iron was used in the construction of the
celebrated Stephen's iron battery at Charleston, and its strength
thoroughly tested. Amidst the general prostration of all works of
internal improvements, it affords us pleasure to note this exception
of one so important. |
| {Macon} Telegraph |
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