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The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gov. Letcher's Message. (search)
fice. Our railroads have not been constructed with special reference to military purposes and objects, but the war has demonstrated that if they had been constructed with this view, they could not have been better adapt to our wants and necessities. The Virginia and Tennessee, the Central, the Orange and Alexandria, the Manassas Gap, the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac, the Richmond and Petersburg, the South-Side, the Richmond and Danville, the Harper's Ferry and Winchester, the York River, and but by no means least, the Norfolk and Petersburg roads, have all rendered essential and valuable services. Indeed, it is difficult to conceive how we could have dispensed with them, or either of them. Their connections are as important as the roads themselves; and it really seems as if Providence wise Providence had superintended, directed, and controlled our entire system of internal improvements of every kind in Virginia and throughout the Southern Confederacy. The subjec