Contributing to these Union triumphs were the naval blockade of major Southern ports and the inadequacies of the Confederate railroads.(more) Davis, who had served as an officer during the Mexican-American War and later acted as U.S. secretary of war, was active in dictating military policy ...
Jeb Stuart was a Confederate cavalry officer whose reports of enemy troop movements were of particular value to the Southern command during the American Civil War (1861–65). An 1854 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., Stuart resigne
Details and maps of all the Confederate railroads and their equipment.
Confederate Railroads Abstract The celebrations began long before workmen pounded in the last spike to complete the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad through southwestern Virginia in October 1856. Two years earlier, when the line reached Central Depot—so named because it lay halfway between the two ter...
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...
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 ...
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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 ...
The attackers came from among the rabble of the towns, the peasants, and the workers in industrial enterprises and the railroads. At the end of this period, the government forces reacted against the rioters and in several places even opened fire on them, leaving a number of dead and injured...