“At the outbreak of the Civil War the Adams Express Company turned its routes in the Southern States, in which it had enjoyed a complete monopoly, over to the Adams-Southern Express Company, created by the Georgia courts for the purpose of assuming this business. The property of the association was to be represented by 5,000 shares, of which 558 were then issued. The Adams Express Company has held to the present day a dominant interest in this association, which it created to facilitate busines during the war. After hostilities ceased it resumed some of its Southern routes by agreement with the Adams-Southern Express Company, whose name had meanwhile been changed to the Southern Express Company. The two companies still work in common and use the same wagons and offices in many places.”—Albert W. Atwood in the American Magazine, Feb., 1911, LXXI, 432.
