| From the Wilmington Journal |
| April 14, 1864 |
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| The Piedmont Railroad, as the
new Confederate Danville connection is called, will be of vital
importance in the event of the lower route via Wilmington & Weldon being
seized, but it is only in that event that it can be so, from the fact
that although it will furnish a double line between Richmond and
Kingsville it will there unite with a single line through South
Carolina. Perhaps, however, the pressure on the roads might be lightened
by bringing all the freight and produce from Eastern and South Eastern
Georgia, and Eastern Alabama by way of Savannah, Charleston and Florence
to Wilmington, and thence via Weldon and Petersburg to Virginia, while
all other freight from Georgia and points South would come by way of
Augusta to Columbia, and so by the Charlotte & South Carolina Railroad,
the N. C. Railroad and the Danville connection and Richmond & Danville
Railroad to Richmond. There is less than ten miles of the Piedmont road
to be finished. |
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