NP, RS 6/19/1863

From the Richmond Sentinel
 
June 19, 1863
 
   The transportation over the Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad {Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac RR} during the maintenance of our large army at the latter point was necessarily enormous. The transportation of the soldiers to and fro, (including the wounded from two great battles,) and there forwarding of food for man and for beast, was a draft on the managers of the road that must have taxed their industry and ingenuity to the utmost; for the demands upon them were greatly in excess of anything they had ever had to respond to before, and such, therefore, as they had, of course, not made adequate preparation to meet. It is greatly to their credit that under these circumstances, they have served the army and the people so well, and without an accident that we remember to have heard of, certainly no serious accident. Thousands upon thousands of soldiers have been moved, and none of them mutilated. There have been no destructive collisions, and no wrecks made of trains over high embankments.
   Now that a breathing time has come to the officers, and the opportunity afforded of overhauling and repairing their hard-worked rolling stock, we think it a fit occasion to congratulate them upon their very efficient services, and upon the good fortune which crowned their judicious management.

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