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After the Civil War, Railway Post Office (RPO) service was re-established on this line, and it became known as the Chicago & Kansas City RPO. Hannibal Bridge over Missouri River at Kansas City. In 1867 a consortium of Charles E. Kearney, Robert T. Van Horn, and Kersey Coates persuaded the railroad to build a cutoff at Cameron to Kansas City ...
The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.In a series of maneuvers, Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army of Mississippi, led by Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton, into the defensive lines surrounding the ...
Chicago, Kansas City and Texas Railway: CB&Q: 1887 1893 Kansas City and Atlantic Railroad: Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: MILW: 1874 1928 Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad: Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad: MILW MILW 1928 1985 The Milwaukee Road, Inc. Chicago, Missouri and Western Railway: CMNW 1987 1990
Sherman's March to the Sea in late 1864 reversed the roles, with the Union army destroying the main line of the Georgia Railroad and others. Due to the shifting tides of the war, some rail lines were rebuilt six or seven times by opposing forces, particularly in states like Virginia, where the fighting was most intense.
Confederate victory near Kansas City. August 15 –16, 1862: Battle of Lone Jack: Missouri: D: Confederate: Confederate victory, Union commander killed. Rebels forced to withdraw after battle. August 21 –22, 1862: Battle of Fort Ridgely: Minnesota: C: Union: Dakota War of 1862: Failed Santee Sioux attack on Union controlled fort. August 22 ...
The day following the Union victory in the Battle of Gettysburg, on July 4, 1863, the most important Confederate stronghold, located on the Mississippi River in Vicksburg, Mississippi, also fell to the Union, in the Siege of Vicksburg. [9] The Battle Gettysburg was the first major defeat suffered by Lee.
C.S. Bayou City captures the USS Harriet Lane during the Battle of Galveston In the Trans-Mississippi Theater , only small battles and skirmishes took place. On January 1, Confederate forces led by Major General John B. Magruder recaptured the port city of Galveston, the only port city which the Confederates were able to recapture during the war.
The Battle of Pine Bluff, also known as the Action at Pine Bluff, was an engagement fought on October 25, 1863, in Jefferson County, Arkansas during the American Civil War. The Post of Pine Bluff, a U.S. garrison commanded by Colonel Powell Clayton , successfully defended the town against attacks led by Confederate Brigadier-General John S ...