NP, RD 2/10A/1862

From the Richmond Dispatch
 
February 10, 1862
 
Important Railroad connections
     The {Virginia} House of Delegates on Saturday passed a bill providing for the construction of a railroad, for military purposes, connecting the Manassas Gap Railroad, at or near Stras Mrs. in the county of Shenandoah, with the Winchester & Potomac Railroad, at or near Winchester, in the county of Frederick. We have not yet had an opportunity of examining the bill, but have been informed that it makes an appropriation of $125,000. That the road is, in fact, a "military necessity" no one can doubt, and the importance of prompt action on the matter will be duly appreciated by the Senate.
   It will be remembered that President Davis, in his message to Congress at the commencement of the present session, recommended that the Confederate Government should assist in making a railroad from Danville, Va. to Greensboro', N. C. {the Piedmont RR}, type the ground of a strong military necessary for completing an interior through line from Virginia to the Southern Atlantic The subject was again alluded to in a special message recently sent in; and the bill (appropriating one million Klaus, was defeated on a motion to engross, is a probability that it will be reconnected. The North Carolina Convention, on Thursday last, by a majority of 23 votes, passed an ordinance authorizing this connector. It merely gives a charter to a company desiring to build the road, or to the Confederate States, if, in pursuance of President Davis's message, they conceive it to be "a military necessity."

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