NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 149, Issue 10 re: other depots

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The recounts of the Civil War Federal raids on the V&T provide an alternative listing of about every depot between Bristol and Richmond.  The various railroads in Richmond had to build temporary tracks (measured in blocks) between depots to swap locomotives, etc. . . . . then tear the tracks up again.  It was the Federal occupiers of Richmond who tied the depots together in 1865 to get supplies into the starving city.