Northern Railroads In The Civil War 1861-1865 Weber 1970 reprint Hard Cover

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The Northern Railroads In The Civil War 1861-1865 By Thomas Weber

Hard Cover

318 Pages

CONTENTS

I. THE NORTHERN RAILROADS AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR 3

II. RAILROAD EXPANSION DURING THE WAR 15

III. EMERGENCY PROBLEMS IN 1861 25

IV. EFFECT OF THE WAR UPON RAILROAD BUSINESS: THE NORTHEAST 42

V. EFFECT OF THE WAR UPON RAILROAD BUSINESS: THE EAST-WEST TRUNK LINES 59

VI. EFFECT OF THE WAR UPON RAILROAD BUSINESS: THE CHICAGO RAILROADS 83

VII. THE MOVEMENT FOR REGULATORY LEGISLATION 94

VIII. THE NEW YORK-WASHINGTON ARTERY: BONE OF CONTENTION 107

IX. GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS IN REGULATION 127

X. THE UNITED STATES MILITARY RAILROADS: THE EASTERN THEATER, TO GETTYSBURG 134

XI. THE UNITED STATES MILITARY RAILROADS: THE EASTERN THEATER, 1864-1865 169

XII. THE UNITED STATES MILITARY RAILROADS: THE WESTERN THEATER, TO 1864 177

XIII. THE UNITED STATES MILITARY RAILROADS: SHERMAN IN GEORGIA AND THE CAROLINAS 199

XIV. THE WAR AND THE RAILROADS 220

NOTES 233

BIBLIOGRAPHY 293

INDEX 303

FOREWORD

THE MANY GENERAL RAILROAD HISTORIES do not touch to any great extent on the Civil War; and only a few histories dealing with individual lines treat this period. This work is not, however, an attempt to write a general history of railroad transportation during this time of national crisis. Several events important for railroad historians, such as the founding in 1863 of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, have been omitted. Rather this hook tries to establish a relationship between the railroads and the war, to note how the war affected railroad activities, and how in turn railroad experience affected the events of the war. It is therefore one phase of railroad history. Since the primary interest is railroads, not the Civil War itself, battles fought over railroad lines and junction points have also been omitted, except as they affected the function of the railroad in providing supplies and transportation of troops and other personnel in the various theaters of war. In general, it will be found that the period from 1861 to 1865 was an important one for the railroads, not because of any great expansion, but rather because of the general consolidation of gains made in the fifties, the experimenting with new and better methods of operation, the finding of new methods of economizing, and the growth in technical ability which enabled the railroads to handle the heavy wartime traffic. These factors once and for all established the railroads as an integral part of the American economy. On the other side, it will be found that the railroads, in their function of furnishing supplies and troops to the various theaters of war, materially affected the character of the war itself, and provided for the North a necessary element of victory.

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