| Author | Turner, George Edgar.
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| Title | Victory rode the rails; the strategic place of the railroads in the Civil War. Maps by George Richard Turner.
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| Edition | [1st ed.] |
| Published | Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1953]
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| Description | 419 p. illus., ports., maps. 25 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-8371-6331-5 |
| Bib. Note | Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [377]-404)
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| Formatted Note | Contents: The railroads draw the boundaries. -- Roads North and South. -- Rolling stock. -- The itching palm of Simon Cameron. -- Concentration in Virginia. -- Railroads in the Western Virginia Campaign. -- First Bull Run. -- No compromise in Missouri. -- At the end of '61. -- The roads in the Tennessee fighting, spring '62. -- Stonewall Jackson knows how to use a railroad. -- The North finds an engineering genius. -- The saga of the "General". -- The railroads and Bragg's invasion, 1862. -- Jackson, Haupt and Second Bull Run. -- The rails in the Antietam Campaign and after. -- Forrest finds Grant's achilles' heel. -- Government railroad policy, South and North. -- The railroads in the Vicksburg Campaign. -- Gettsburg-and Haupt again. -- Transportation feats in the Chattanooga Campaign. -- Wounded and disabled ride away. -- Disaster overtakes Southern policy. -- Supplying Sherman in the Atlanta Campaign. -- The roads in Lee's defense of Richmond. -- Wheels stop turning in Tennessee and Georgia. -- Railheads at last.
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| Subjects | Railroads -- Confederate States of America.
Railroads -- United States -- History.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Transportation.
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| LC Card Number | 53-8876 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 491 T946
mq162949: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 99734] |
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