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The Mobile & Ohio Railroad in the Civil War - The Struggle for Control of the Nation's Longest Railway (Paperback)
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The Mobile & Ohio Railroad in the Civil War - The Struggle for Control of the Nation's Longest Railway (Paperback)
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The Mobile & Ohio Railroad was the longest line in the nation
when it was completed in spring of 1861--the final spike driven a
few weeks after Confederate artillery shelled Fort Sumter. Within
days, the M&O was swept up in the Civil War as a prime conveyor
of troops and supplies, a strategic and tactical asset to both
Confederate and Union armies, who fought to control it. Its
northern terminus at Columbus, Kentucky saw some of the earliest
fighting in the war. The southern terminus in Mobile, Alabama was
the scene of some of the last. U. S. Grant, William T. Sherman,
Nathan Bedford Forrest, Newton Knight of the "Free State of Jones"
and others battled over the M&O, the Federals taking it
mile-by-mile. This book chronicles the campaigns and battles for
the railroad and the calamity endured by the civilians who lived
along it.
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