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Railroads in the Civil War : The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat - John E Clark

Railroads in the Civil War

The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat

By: John E Clark, T Michael Parrish (Editor)

Paperback | 1 October 2004

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By the time of the Civil War, the railroads had advanced to allow the movement of large numbers of troops even though railways had not yet matured into a truly integrated transportation system. Gaps between lines, incompatible track gauges, and other vexing impediments remained in both the North and South. As John E. Clark Jr. explains in this keen study, the skill with which Union and Confederate war leaders met those problems and utilized the rail system to its fullest potential was an essential ingredient for ultimate victory. Clark focuses on two case studies of troop movement: Longstreet's transfer of thirteen thousand men from the Army of Northern Virginia to the Army of Tennessee in the fall of 1863, and the Union's corresponding shift of the Army of Potomac's Eleventh and Twelfth Corps to the Army of the Cumberland to save Chattanooga.
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"Clark has introduced an important candidate into the debate over why the South lost the Civil War - logistics." - Journal of American History; "An intelligently conceived, clearly written, provocative, and insightful contribution to our understanding not only of how superior railroads aided the northern war effort, but also of sectional differences in both the management of business and the administration of government." - Georgia Historical Quarterly"

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Non-FictionHistoryMilitary HistoryAmerican Civil WarRegional & National HistoryHistory of the AmericasTransportationTrains & Railways in GeneralWarfare & DefenceWar & Defence OperationsEarliest Times to Present DayModern History from 1700 to 1900
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