| From the Richmond Enquirer |
| January 3, 1865 |
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| Quoted from the US Official Records of same
date |
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| The
{Richmond &} Danville railroad is the great connecting line
between Richmond and the sources of supply for the army now defending
this city. Unless that road can be properly managed, can have a head and
directory, at least competent to supply trains with wood and water, as
well as to repair leaky engines, and, above all, with honest and earnest
men at the termini of the road, it will be but a few weeks before this
city will be besieged, not by the enemy only, but by the stupidity of
the management of this road. At a late important juncture of military
affairs this road was so incompetently managed that a great disaster was
imminent and only prevented by the interposition of Providence, and not
by the enterprise and management of the Danville road. During a recent
serious scarcity of rations a train of cars, nine in number, came into
Richmond with two cars for Government and seven for individuals. Rumor
is busy with a thousand reports of bribery and corruption, and the
military authorities are loud in complaints against this road. |
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