| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| October 12, 1861 |
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| A good use |
| The first trip over the Macon
& Warrenton Railroad, (designed
ultimately to connect Macon and Sparta, Ga.,) was made on the 13th of
September, over the iron which was used in "Stevens's
Battery," on Morris's Island, in the investment of Fort Sumter. {This
must have been the Milledgeville RR; Sparta was a
station between Milledgeville and Warrenton. The Stevens' Battery was
a 3-gun battery which was protected with a slanting wall of wood,
covered with 3 layers of RR rails. The quantity of rails used would
have laid only about 1/2 mile of track (both sides), though this
section of track was laid at this time.} |
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