| From the Yorkville (S. C.) Enquirer |
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| February 25, 1863 |
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| An Important Connection |
| George Wadsworth, Chief
Engineer, wrote to General Bragg concerning a missing link in the
connection of the Alabama & Tennessee River Railroad. |
| A few months, with all the
facilities that can be thrown upon the line, would complete the work
from Blue Mount to Rome, and open the communication between the
railroads of the Northeast and southwest of the Confederacy. There is
no heavy work upon the line, and the whole amount of excavation to be
done cannot exceed 250,000 cubic yards, scattered over 60 miles of
road, it being chiefly light embankment. By the 22d of this month we
want 500 hands upon the work, and by the 23d of June next, you with
your staff will be able to make a through trip, almost without a
change of cars, from New Orleans -- yes, New Orleans to Richmond, in
sixty hours. From New Orleans to Richmond by way of Jacksonville and
Rome, is 1200 miles; by way of Montgomery and Kinston, 1440, and by
Augusta and Wilmington, 1480. |
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