| From the Savannah Morning News |
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| December 6, 1862 |
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| Railroad Connection with Florida |
| We take the following
paragraph from the Tallahassee Sentinel of the 2d inst.: |
| The Railroad Bill |
| The object of this bill is to
construct a railway between Monticello and Thomasville. The distance is
about twenty miles, and Georgians, we understand, including the city of
Savannah herself, are very much in favor of the project. East Florida,
at least certain portions of it, as we are informed, are also in for it
heart and band. We rather think, from the best information we have on
the subject, that the bill will pass -- many of the members looking upon
it as a military necessity. Should it pass, we understand that
assurances have been given of an early and speedy connection between
Thomasville and Albany, thus giving to Florida almost a direct
communication with the Southern States. It is further said by the
immediate friends of the bill, that Florida will only have to build some
six miles as her part of the road -- that the iron can be had and the
road bed put under process of construction at once. |
| {This was a competing
road to the Lawton & Live Oak RR that was actually built.} |
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