"This trying hour": The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad in the Civil War (2017)
Mingus, Scott L., Sr. (Author)
Williams, Robert L. (Author)
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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)
...MoreReview 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).
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