| City Point |
| January 3, 1865 (Received 7 p. m.) |
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| Hon. E. M. Stanton |
| Secretary of War |
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| The Richmond Enquirer of
to-day says: |
| The Danville railroad
{Piedmont RR and Richmond & Danville RR}
is the great connecting line between Richmond and the sources
of supply for the army now defending this city. Unless that road can
be properly managed, can have a head and directory, at least
competent to supply trains with wood and water, as well as to repair
leaky engines, and, above all, without honest and earnest men at the
termini of the road, it will be but a few weeks before this city
will be besieged, not by the enemy only, but by the stupidity of the
management of this road. At a late important juncture of military
affairs this road was so incompetently managed that a great disaster
was imminent and only prevented by the interposition of Providence,
and not by the enterprise and management of the Danville Road.
During a recent serious scarcity of rations a train of cars, nine in
number, came into Richmond with two cars for Government and seven
for individuals. Rumor is busy with a thousand reports of bribery
and corruption, and the military authorities are loud in complaints
against this road. |
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