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15031
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When construction gangs were attempting to complete the pass for the first train tracks on both sides of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the western side had more difficulty due to lack of locomotives to help the work progress. It took eight yoke of oxen to get a locomotive to the western side of the divide. The job was done in two weeks and the railroad complete shortly after.
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17988
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Saunders was a lawyer, soldier, editor, North Carolina Secretary of State, and historian. During the Civil War he was Colonel of the Forty-Sixth North Carolina Regiment. He was wounded three times at Fredericksburg and suffered a near-fatal wound at the Battle of the Wilderness. His greatest contribution to the state was his copying, organizing, and overseeing the publishing of the ten volumes of the Colonial Records of North Carolina.
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