NP, TS 6/11/1864

From the Tarboro (N. C.) Southerner
 
June 11, 1864
  
Piedmont Rail Road
   We understand that this important line of communication, connecting the Richmond & Danville rail road with the North Carolina rail road at Greensboro', a distance of 48 miles, has just been completed and put in operation. This secures at once and renders safe from Yankee raiders, for all time to come, the connection of the seat of Government with the South. Averill may range on one side and Spears on the other, and make as many temporary interruptions of the other roads as they please, but this middle line cannot be touched. Moreover, it is the shortest route to the South. Even from Petersburg to Greensboro', by the Southside and Richmond & Danville rail roads, the distance is 54 miles less than it is by Weldon and Raleigh. It will be seen in our advertising columns, that the Southside Company already advertise this line open as a traveling line. It will no doubt be as important as a freight line; and it is probable that it will relieve the press of government business so much on the Southern road, that we may soon expect to see supplies come to our market by that line, and thus help our people. In a word, this new route will exercise a beneficial effect all around, and we cannot too much commend the government agents and others engaged on it, for being able to push a work of such magnitude through in so short a period in times like these.
Petersburg Express

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