Title: Victory rode the rails; the strategic place of the railroads in the Civil War.
Authors: Turner, George Edgar.
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
Year: 1953
Subjects: Railroads United States History; Railroads Confederate States of America; Railroads United States History; United States History Transportation.
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 -- Gettysburg 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 -- Railhead at last.