Volume 1 by John McElroy]@TWC D-Link book Volume 1 5/6 The roads were built as through lines, to bring to the seaboard the rich products of the interior. It is on a rudely constructed, rickety railroad, that runs from Macon to Albany, the head of navigation on the Flint River, which is, one hundred and six miles from Macon, and two hundred and fifty from the Gulf of Mexico. Andersonville is about sixty miles from Macon, and, consequently, about three hundred miles from the Gulf. It was as remote a point from, our armies, as they then lay, as the Southern Confederacy could give. |