Victory Rode the Rails

Victory Rode the Rails

Author: George Edgar Turner

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 9780837163314

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'Victory Rode the Rails' portrays the decisive military advantage enjoyed by the side that controlled the railroads during the Civil War.


Vital Rails

Vital Rails

Author: H. David Stone

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9781570037160

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Spanning more than one hundred miles across rice fields, salt marshes, and seven rivers and creeks, the Charleston & Savannah Railroad was designed to revolutionize the economy of South Carolina's lowcountry by linking key port cities. This history of the railroad records the story of the C&S and of the men who managed it during wartime.


Victory Rode the Rails

Victory Rode the Rails

Author: George Edgar Turner

Publisher: Bison Books

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780803294233

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Early in the Civil War both the North and South were confronted with an entirely new problem in logistics. George Edgar Turner writes: "It began to appear that important railroad junction points were to become major military objec-tives." Victory Rode the Rails portrays the decisive military advantage enjoyed by the side that controlled the railroads. Turner was a retired lawyer and insurance executive when his book was first published in 1953. It "remains the best introduction to the subject of railroads and military operations during the Civil War," says Gary Gallagher in presenting this book to a new audience.


The Train and the Telegraph

The Train and the Telegraph

Author: Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published: 2019-08-06

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1421429748

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A challenge to the long-held notion of close ties between the railroad and telegraph industries of the nineteenth century. To many people in the nineteenth century, the railroad and the telegraph were powerful, transformative forces, ones that seemed to work closely together to shape the economy, society, and politics of the United States. However, the perception—both popular and scholarly—of the intrinsic connections between these two institutions has largely obscured a far more complex and contested relationship, one that created profound divisions between entrepreneurial telegraph promoters and warier railroad managers. In The Train and the Telegraph, Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes argues that uncertainty, mutual suspicion, and cautious experimentation more aptly describe how railroad officials and telegraph entrepreneurs hesitantly established a business and technical relationship. The two industries, Schwantes reveals, were drawn together gradually through external factors such as war, state and federal safety regulations, and financial necessity, rather than because of any perception that the two industries were naturally related or beneficial to each other. Complicating the existing scholarship by demonstrating that the railroad and telegraph in the United States were uneasy partners at best—and more often outright antagonists—throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Train and the Telegraph will appeal to scholars of communication, transportation, and American business history and political economy, as well as to enthusiasts of the nineteenth-century American railroad industry.


Rescue by Rail

Rescue by Rail

Author: Roger Pickenpaugh

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780803237209

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A chronicle of the massive Federal troop movement by rail, which sent reinforcements to a besieged Chatanooga in 1863, details the strategic importance of the Union's superiority in technology and mobility over the forces of the Confederates under Longstreet. UP.


Railroads and American Law

Railroads and American Law

Author: James W. Ely, Jr.

Publisher: University Press of Kansas

Published: 2001-12-06

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0700611444

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No enterprise is so seductive as a railroad for the influence it exerts, the power it gives, and the hope of gain it offers.—Poor's Manual of Railroads (1900) At its peak, the railroad was the Internet of its day in its transformative impact on American life and law. A harbinger and promoter of economic empire, it was also the icon of a technological revolution that accelerated national expansion and in the process transformed our legal system. James W. Ely Jr., in the first comprehensive legal history of the rail industry, shows that the two institutions-the railroad and American law-had a profound influence on each other. Ely chronicles how "America's first big business" impelled the creation of a vast array of new laws in a country where long-distance internal transport had previously been limited to canals and turnpikes. Railroads, the first major industry to experience extensive regulation, brought about significant legal innovations governing interstate commerce, eminent domain, private property, labor relations, and much more. Much of this development was originally designed to serve the interests of the railroads themselves but gradually came to contest and control the industry's power and exploitative tendencies. As Ely reveals, despite its great promise and potential as an engine of prosperity and uniter of far-flung regions, the railroad was not universally admired. Railroads uprooted people, threatened local autonomy, and posed dangers to employees and the public alike-situations with unprecedented legal ramifications. Ely explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which those ramifications played out, as railroads crossed state lines and knitted together a diverse nation with thousands of miles of iron rail. Epic in its scope, Railroads and American Law makes a complex subject accessible to a wide range of readers, from legal historians to railroad buffs, and shows the many ways in which a powerful industry brought change and innovation to America.


Railroads of Pennsylvania

Railroads of Pennsylvania

Author: Lorett Treese

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0811748871

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Regional histories of the great railroads and relics of rail culture.


Gone with the Glory

Gone with the Glory

Author: Brian Steel Wills

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0742545261

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From Birth of a Nation to Cold Mountain, Hollywood has used the Civil War to create compelling cinema with each generation resolving the tug of war between entertainment value and historical accuracy differently. Wills looks at the portrayal of the war in film, explores their accuracy, how the films influenced each other, and how they reflect America's changing understandings of the conflict and of the nation.


Sublime Communication Technologies

Sublime Communication Technologies

Author: Rod Giblett

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-01-17

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0230584020

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This lively new study is a critical cultural history of communication technologies, from railways and telegraphy to computers and the Internet, in which Rod Giblett argues that these technologies play a pivotal role in the cultural history of modernity and its project of the sublime.