Details and maps of all the Confederate railroads and their equipment.
Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Gospel of Prosperity: Aid Under the Radical Republicans, 1865-1877 CHAPTER 16 "Men are Giting Desperate . . .": The Panic, Collapse, and Survival of the Gospel of Prosperity, 1873—1880 You have ruined me, you fool, me and... JF Doster,MW Summers -...
The Railroads of the Confederacy Originally published by UNC Press in 1952, The Railroads of the Confederacy tells the story of the first use of railroads on a major scale in a major war. ... RCB Iii - University of North Carolina Press 被引量: 2发表: 1998年 The Confederacy or the Chu...
This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the other hand, did not want these projects to be done at all. Also the North wanted to develop a tariff. With a high tariff, it protected the Northern manufacturer. It was bad for the South because a high tariff would not ...
The two rail movements reflect the management skill with which each side used its railroads to prosecute the first modern war.;In August 1864, Abraham Lincoln believed that he would not win re-election and the Union would lose the war. Eight days later, Sherman captured Atlanta and broke the...
This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the other hand, did not want these projects to be done at all. Also the North wanted to develop a tariff. With a high tariff, it protected the Northern manufacturer. It was bad for the South because a high tariff would not ...
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The disintegration of southern railroads because of hard use and Union destruction was greatly accelerated by the seizure of railroad iron for shipbuilding. This transportation breakdown complicated by poor coordination and the lack of rolling stock caused intolerable delays in ship construction all over ...
reach its former state of profitability until 1870. The corporate wealth of railroads and manufacturers was almost wholly lost during the war. At the beginning of the war, the South had three main lines of railroad, some of which were extended to deal with the wartime traffic. Cut off from...
Before the Civil War, Yancey returned from Argentina and took up residence in Atlanta. It was a small, rough railroad junction and regional market town, but once hostilities broke out, it became an instant city. The factories that had served the railroads began to turn out ...