Book ID: CBB586617194

The War Came by Train: The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad during the Civil War (2013)

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Toomey, Daniel Carroll (Author)


Baltimore


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xii + 292 pp., illustrations, maps
Language: English

Beginning with the B & O's reaction to John Brown's Raid in 1859 and ending with the demobilization of the Union Army in 1865, the overall strategy and political aims of the time period are blended with the battles and daily operational challenges of a Civil War Railroad. The author is a Civil War historian and Guest Curator at the B & O Railroad Museum. (Worldcat)

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Authors & Contributors
Mingus, Scott L., Sr.
White, John H., Jr.
Grant, H. Roger
David Schley
Cooper H. Wingert
Pfeiffer, David A.
Journals
Railroad History
IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Publishers
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
B & O Caboose Publishers
Voyageur Press
Savas Beatie
On Track Publishers
Karwansaray Publishers
Concepts
Railroads
Land transportation
Railroads, Military
Articulated locomotives
Pictorial works
Passenger trains
People
Langdon, Jervis
White, William
Garrett, John W.
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
Places
United States
Virginia (U.S.)
Middle Atlantic States
South Carolina (U.S.)
Baltimore (Maryland, U.S.)
Europe
Institutions
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History
B & O Railroad Museum
Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company
Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Rail Road Company
Northern Central Railway Company
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