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The Daily Dispatch: February 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], Bomb Proof batteries. (search)
irty miles.--By the lack of railway from Lewisburg to Jackson river, thirty-six miles, we have more than twice the difficulty of the enemy in reaching the Sewell, which is the Gibraltar of the mountains. This disadvantage the enemy is increasing by using the winter to mend the roads on his side, while we delay or hesitate to do the same on ours. If the enemy enter Greenbrier and Monroe, he secures portable property, useful and tributary to war, worth more than it would cost to extend the Covington and Ohio road, by temporary track, to the westward of those counties, and to preserve this immense property for the use of our own army. The Southwestern and Central Railroads would then belong to him, and with such success into the State, the authority of Pierpont would be felt in the city of Richmond. The only economical and certain defence of that country and those roads, is to keep the enemy in the mountains if we cannot drive them beyond the Ohio. To keep him there, or to drive