| From the Savannah Morning News |
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| July 23, 1863 |
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| The Call on Railroads |
| In obedience to a call made
upon he different railroads throughout the State, by Adjutant Gen.
Wayne, for their employees to organize themselves into companies for
home defence, a large meeting for the hands employed on the Macon &
Western Railroad was held last Saturday in Macon, which resulted in the
enrollment of about ninety-five members, and we learn that the number
will be increased to over a hundred. |
| The men on the Central
(of Georgia) Railroad are also preparing
themselves to form a company, which, we hear, will number over a hundred
and fifty men. |
| It appears that there has been
a special letter written by Gen. Wayne to the superintendents of the
different railroads, assuring them that the companies so formed shall be
used exclusively for the protection of their own roads, and, therefore,
will be no backwardness, we hope, on the part of our railroad men in
uniting themselves into corps. |
| Macon Telegraph |
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