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Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat (LSU Press, 2001) Clarke, Robert L. "The Florida Railroad Company in the Civil War," Journal of Southern History (1953) 19#2 pp. 180–192 in JSTOR; Cotterill, R. S. "The Louisville and Nashville Railroad 1861-1865," American Historical Review (1924) 29#4 pp. 700–715 ...
A mortar mounted on a railroad car used during the Civil War, 1865. Rail was strategic during the American Civil War, and the Union used its much larger system much more effectively. Practically all the mills and factories supplying rails and equipment were in the North, and the Union blockade kept the South from getting new equipment or spare ...
The greatest nation of the Earth: Republican economic policies during the Civil War (Harvard UP, 2009) pp. 170–208, detailed history of passage of the Pacific Railroad Acts. Riegel, Robert Edgar. The Story of the Western Railroads (1926) online; Shortridge, James R. Cities on the plains: The evolution of urban Kansas (UP of Kansas, 2004 ...
This is a list of Confederate Railroads in operation or used by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. See also Confederate railroads in the American Civil War. At the outset of the war, the Confederacy possessed the third largest set of railroads of any nation in the world, with about 9,000 miles of railroad track. [1]
Post-Civil War efforts to enforce federal civil rights protections in the South ended in 1890 with the failure of the Lodge Bill. Historians continue to disagree about the legacy of Reconstruction. Criticism of Reconstruction focuses on the early failure to prevent violence, corruption, starvation, disease, and other problems.
The railroad and its route through Corinth, Mississippi was a significant factor in the Battle of Shiloh in 1862. [12] Construction of the rail line still persisted during the Civil War because the owners of the railroad wanted to serve the Confederate Army.
All three railroads were severely damaged during the American Civil War (1861-1865). After Virginia seceded in April 1861, William Mahone, as its president, used the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad (N&P) to deliver a small force to Norfolk to secure the Gosport Navy Yard, an important resource for the Confederacy. After Union leaders declined a ...
1884–1889: Post–Civil War expansion. 1912: Contiguous US, all states. ... Railroads had up to five years to sell or mortgage their land, after tracks were laid ...