Bean catalog. On our Gulfport District, the maximum main line speed of freight trains had been reduced to ten miles an hour over crumbling lightweight 1930s rail affixed to ties that could be pulled apart in the hand. Three-man crews, with radios that rarely worked, risked their lives ...
When the Civil War began, he was appointed offense and demanded ex- a Colonel in the Missouri State Guard, and saw early fighting in planations, affirming that that state. Marmaduke was wounded at Shiloh in April 1862, and the course pursued by Mar- in November of that year he was ...