| From the Winchester (Va.) Republican |
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| April 26, 1861 |
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| Military Railroad From Winchester to
Strasburg |
| A member of the Senate, who,
at the last session of the Legislature, voted against our bill to
extend our Rail Road to Strasburg, was in this town a few days since
and he then openly declared that he would never again vote against
such a bill. He saw the noble volunteers fagged down in their forced
march of eighteen miles. Numbers of these patriotic men from Augusta,
footed then way from Staunton to Mount Crawford, the end of the
Manassas {Gap} Rail Road, and walked also
from Strasburg to Winchester. Hundreds of tons of machinery and
unfinished arms are now ordered to be waggoned direct from our depot
to Strasburg, and several wagons are at once to be put in requisition
for that purpose. |
| In the memorial to the
Legislature the President of our Rail Road Company {Winchester
& Potomac RR} among other reasons why the bill should be
past, gave, to use his own words, the following: |
| "Because, in the present
perilous condition of the country, it is vital to have a road over
which to transport troops and munitions to our Western border without
being dependent on a corporation in a foreign State, and vice versa
to transport troops, &c., to the Atlantic border." |
| True, most true now, to the
letter. An effort is now making to have a military road constructed. |
| A telegraph line for military
purposes is now in process of construction, and in a few days will be
completed from this place to Richmond. |
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