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The iron way railroads, the Civil War, and the making of modern America /

"Beginning with Frederick Douglass's escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869, this book charts a critical period of American expansion and national formation, one largely dominated by the dyn...

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Main Author: Thomas, William G., 1964-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2011]
Physical Description: 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Confederate States of America. -- Army -- Transportation.
United States. -- Army -- Transportation -- History -- 19th century.
United States. -- Army -- Transportation -- History.
Railroads -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Railroads -- Confederate States of America -- History.
Railroads -- United States -- History.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Transportation.
United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Territorial expansion -- History.
Table of Contents:
  • Slavery, the South, and "every bar of railroad iron"
  • - Railroads, the North, and "the velocity of progress"
  • - Secession and a modern war
  • - Fighting the Confederate landscapes
  • - The railroad war zones
  • - The Confederate nation "cut off from the world"
  • - The railroad strategy
  • - After emancipation
  • - Epilogue : the road to Promontory Summit.

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