Overview
This book recounts and pictures these dramatic events and it is needed to round out the story of them 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 even 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 General 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....