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Atlantic Coast Line of five consecutive railroads starting with the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad and connecting all the way to
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Carolina and England of $ 12,000 and $ 6,600. The
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Pearson, C. C. (1916). "The Readjuster Movement in Virginia".
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North Carolina. Board of Railroad Commissioners (1894).
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The Wilmington & Weldon Railroad in the Civil War
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