. Travelers guide to the Louisville and Nashville railroad .. . ifetime beenidentified with this interest. Nothing does more to add tothe security the traveler feels than to know he is in thehands of experienced and reliable conductors. Among the many familiar faces that have for years greet-ed tlie traveling community with their pleasant faces andTicket! sir, are Captain Thomas Berry, Captain Henry, Major B. Compton, Major Gault, Captain , Captain Billy Knox, Harry Blackstone, CaptainHaines, Captain William Taylor, and Matt. Lowe, whosegenial smiles and uniform gentlemanly be
. Travelers guide to the Louisville and Nashville railroad .. . ifetime beenidentified with this interest. Nothing does more to add tothe security the traveler feels than to know he is in thehands of experienced and reliable conductors. Among the many familiar faces that have for years greet-ed tlie traveling community with their pleasant faces andTicket! sir, are Captain Thomas Berry, Captain Henry, Major B. Compton, Major Gault, Captain , Captain Billy Knox, Harry Blackstone, CaptainHaines, Captain William Taylor, and Matt. Lowe, whosegenial smiles and uniform gentlemanly bearing are notsoon forgotten. SLEEPING CARS. Attached to each of the night trains on this road is one ofPayne, Harris & luxurious sleeping cnrs, built in themost substantial manner, with all the modern improye-ments, particularly the ventilation, which is considered themost perfect in use. Wide couches, the best of mattrasses,and pillows, with clean sheets and bedding, render tothe Vveary traveler a, nights rest unsurpassed in any wellregulated VIEW OX SIXTH STREET, LOUISVILLE, KY. :5fASHVIL£.B RAILROAZ?. 25 HISTORY LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD, DURIN<5 THE WAR, ^«m y«^^3/^ 1881, *o ^ri^Z, 1865, Oaa ;t±te 4t!a of Jaiy., 1861, <loverJK)r Karris, of. Tennessee,ordered that poi^A<m. of tfee Lo«isvill« and iMashville Railrroad m tiie State of Ten-s^ssee to be sei-zed by the TennesseeState troops. By this act of -the Confederate Governor theL. <fe N. Railroad Ocmvp^iy lost 45 sailes of their road, andwere prevented ft-o?ii doinii? saiy business south of BowlingGreeai. With tfce road were seixed 5 locomotives, 61) freightcars, tmd S passenger and baggage cars. Not until the evacua*io?i of Nashville in February, 1862,did this part of the road <xM«e «§aia into the possession ofthe Comi^any, The Memphis Ursxtc^^ r<n«d ^. operated to the KentuckyState line ««itil th«3 iT^th of September, 1861, when Bucknerinvaded the State of Ke^itweky w
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