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Raleigh & Gaston RR Stock

RALEIGH and GASTON RAILROAD COMPANY stock certificate for 1 share issued to W.H. Jones, signed by W.J. Hawkins as President and W.W. Vass as Treasurer. With nice vignette of a locomotive and Negro porter at left. Fine.This railroad served the Confederacy during the Civil War with practically no interference from the enemy. The line offered the most-direct route between Richmond, Raleigh, and Charlotte until 1864. In September of 1863, trains were engaged in mass troop movement of the army of General Longstreet form the battlefields of Virginia near Orange Court House above Richmond and Charlottesville, to Chickamauga, Georgia, near Chattanooga. The Confederacy finally brought destruction to the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad. Upon the fall of Richmond, the company's bridge across the Roanoke River at Gaston was destroyed, never to be rebuilt by the company. However, the locomotives and most of the rolling stock were safely stored across the river at Gaston and protected from the Federal troops.

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