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Civil War Railroads Pictorial story of the Iron Horse 1861 thru 1865 Abdill w/DJ
Civil War Railroads Pictorial story of the Iron Horse 1861 thru 1865 True story of railroads and the men in the Civil War By Geo B Abdill
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
192 pages
Copyright MCMLXI 1961, 1989 iNDIANA uNIVERSITY prESS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Joh Browns Body8
Rails go to War9
Driving Force10
Canny Scot11
In Johnny Rebs Wake13
Virginia Rail Center14
Disrupted Passage15
Bull Run Crossing17
Peninsular Campaign18
Car Shortage19
Troop Movement20
Iron Warhorse21
Union Mills Station22
Guardians of the Iron Road23
Battered Ramparts24
One More River25
Border Road26
Somewhere in Virginia27
Virginia Railroading29
Yuba Dam29
Ready for the Advance31
Military Railroad Brass33
GI Motive Power35
Yankee Wheels in Virginia37
Bull Run Bridge38
War is Hell39
Battle Veteran40
Home Front Defense41
Military Railroad Views42
Virginia Rail Stations43
Pioneer Car Ferry48
Civil War Switcher51
Two Railroad Classics54
Railroad Junction55
Rail Twister56
Heavy Motive Power58
Potomac River Crossing69
Iron Horse Stable75
Lumber Supply Point89
Transplanted New Englander99
Military Storehouse110
Tennessee Terminal132
Home from the War133
Prisoners of War142
Lookout Mountain143
Mess Houses145
Military Expedient163
Tunnel Hill171
Last Train173
Lincolns Last Train Ride185
A Pictorial Story of the War Between the States ... 1861-1865
The Civil War, like all others, was not all gunfire and panic. It was supply and transport, trains and trouble on the line, men in Blue and Gray fighting against almost unbelievable odds with lumbering, woodburning engines.
This book recounts and pictures these dramatic events and it is needed to round out the story of the War Between the States. It is written and prepared by a present day engineman who has a profound respect for history and the part the railroads played when the bloody conflict set brother against brother. The text has the steel ring of authority and who can question the black-and-white reality of photographs from the Library of Congress, National Archives and many private collections across America?
Here in quaint and curious scenes which no man alive today has ever seen is the actual record of Civil War railroading, many of the photographs printed here for the first time-the rolling stock, stations, bridges, car floats and rail-borne artillery-wrecks, raids and wild rides. Here are exciting eye-witness accounts of guerilla warfare, adventures behind enemy lines, vivid stories of the Iron Horse at work and in adventure.
Expect to learn about such noted Army railroaders as Generals Herman Haupt and Daniel C. McCallum; Conductors Carter Anderson and William Fuller; Engineer Jeff Cain and Superintendent J. H. Devereux of the United States Military Railroads; the raids of Stoneman, Jeb Stuart and the Andrews party. Read and view with fascination the exploits of the Construction Corps, the fortunes of Orange & Alexandria; Loudon & Hampshire; Nashville & Northwestern; Memphis & Little Rock; Macon & Western; New
Orleans, Opelousas & Great Western; Baltimore & Ohio; Louisville & Nashville; Nashville & Chattanooga; Atlanta & West Point; City Point & Army and many others.
CJE
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