| From the Savannah Morning News |
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| March 21, 1861 |
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| The Columbiads |
| We learn that one eight-inch
Columbiad, with a car load of shell and shot, arrived last night, via
the Central {(of Georgia)} Railroad. These
articles left Richmond on the 7th inst., and reached Savannah on the
night of the 20th, having been only thirteen days on the way. It
seems to us that it would have been better to have had them shipped via
Charleston or Augusta, as time and money might have been saved, even
taking the unloading and reloading at either of those points into
account. |
| {There must be more
to the story than is told. It is almost certain that the gun was shipped
from Richmond to Atlanta, by way of Knoxville, then to Savannah. Why the
routes through Augusta or Charleston would have been faster is not
explained.} |
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