Book ID: CBB920162894

"This trying hour": The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad in the Civil War (2017)

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Mingus, Scott L., Sr. (Author)
Williams, Robert L. (Author)


CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 238 pp., illustrations, maps, bib.
Language: English

The first comprehensive study of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad in the Civil War, this book includes detailed drawings of railroad stations, track layouts, and rolling stock, redrawn from the original blueprints. The PW&B was one of the most important supply and troop transport routes in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War, especially for the Union Army of the Potomac. The book includes detailed accounts of Abraham Lincoln's clandestine trip on the PW&B to Baltimore en route to his inauguration as president; the Pratt Street Riot in Baltimore in April 1861, Isaac R. Trimble's burning of the railroad bridges by his force of Baltimore city policemen and Maryland state militiamen, Major Harry Gilmor's daring raid on the railroad in 1864 that resulted in the capture of a Union major general, and many other key events along the main rail route between New York City and Washington. (Amazon)

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Review Steven G. Collins (Spring-Summer 2018) Review of ""This trying hour": The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad in the Civil War". Railroad History (pp. 101-102). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Goldfeder, Ron
Mingus, Scott L., Sr.
Gruber, John E.
Bright, David L.
Hansen, Peter A.
Peter Tip
Concepts
Railroads
Land transportation
Locomotives, steam
Railroads, Military
Military technology
Photography of railroads
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
Places
United States
Virginia (U.S.)
Middle Atlantic States
Durand, Michigan
South Carolina (U.S.)
Western states (U.S.)
Institutions
West Point Foundry
Union Pacific Railway Company
Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Company
Boston
Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History
Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad Company
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