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The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
scribe them to the reason above suggested. Seriously, it is a great annoyance to the passenger on urgent business, and especially to the hundreds of furloughed soldiers that daily crowd the trains on their way southward to snatch a brief interval of peace and quiet with loved ones at home, and who measure time by no golden standard. The trip from Richmond was marked by little of interest to the traveler or the reading public. At a certain important point in upper North Carolina Gen. Matt W. Ransom's brigade was stationed, and industrious as beavers erecting entrenchments and fortifications, in anticipation of an expected raid by the Yankees on the coast. The same spirit seemed to prevail along the line of the railroad, and, as far as I could learn from inquiry, prevailed throughout the State. At every station the soldiers received gratifying manifestations of sympathy from the ladies, who are not behind their fair sisters of other States in exhibitions of practical patriotism