Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)

By the time of the Civil War, the railroads had advanced to allow the movement of large numbers of troops even though railways had not yet matured into a truly integrated transportation system. Gaps between lines, incompatible track gauges, and other vexing impediments remained in both the North and South. As John E. Clark explains in this compelling study, the skill with which Union and Confederate war leaders met those problems and utilized the rail system to its fullest potential was an essential ingredient for ultimate victory.

• The Railroads of the Confederacy
• The Northern Railroads in the Civil War, 1861-1865
• American Civil War Railroad Tactics (Elite)
• Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation
• Historical Atlas of the North American Railroad
• Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War
• The Civil War at Sea
• Arms and Equipment of the Civil War
• Civil War Railroads
• Victory Rode the Rails: The Strategic Place of the Railroads in the Civil War