Civil War Railroads

With more than 220 black and white photographs from the NationalArchives, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, and privatecollections across the country, this is the essential pictorial guide for all thoseinterested in the role of the Iron Horse in the American Civil War. Like all wars, the Civil War was not all gunfire and panic. It was supply and transport, trains andtrouble on the line, men in Blue and Gray fighting against almost unbelievable oddswith lumbering, woodburning engines.