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Civil War Railroads: A Pictorial Story of the War between the States, 1861-1865 | 
 enlarge | Author: George B. Abdill
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 871122
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 7.7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0253335361
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.7
EAN: 9780253335364
ASIN: 0253335361
Publication Date: May 1, 1999
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Book Description
With more than 220 black and white photographs from the National Archives, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, and private collections across the country, this is the essential pictorial guide for all those interested 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 and trouble on the line, men in Blue and Gray fighting against almost unbelievable odds with lumbering, woodburning engines.
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Blue and Gray on the Rails April 10, 2000
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Civil War Railroads by George Abdill is a wonderful browsing book on railroading in the 1860's. One can open to most any page and find an interesting story, anecdote, biography or fact about Civil War railroading. The book is organized chronologically with no clear academic theme. It draws few conclusions. It is, however, flooded with over two hundred photos mainly from the Library of Congress and the National Archives. There is a wide mixed spectrum of topics including locomotives,rolling stock, structures, yards, track, car ferries was well as burned and destroyed trains and bridges on both sides. Somehow Abdill seems to have identified by name almost every locomotive pictured. Devastation is certainly a common thread. Book length topics like the Andrew's raid (the great locomotive chase) and the Lincoln funeral train are covered in only a few pages. Readers should note this is a word for word reprint of Abdill's 1961 book of the same title. The Indiana University Press digitally enhanced reprint on glossy paper greatly improved the photo quality from the muddy first edition. For the modeler it has no scale drawings, track layouts or even color lithographs. It is very pleasing blend of many railroad topics. I was never bored. I would recommend it to Civil War buffs, model railroaders and anyone interest in a fascinating part of our history.
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