Download or read book Letter of the President of the Philadelphia Wilmington Baltimore Railroad Company to the Secretary of War written by Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Rail Road Company and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The War Department 1861 written by Alexander Howard Meneely and published by New York : Columbia University Press ; London : P.S. King & son, Limited. This book was released on 1928 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the War Department during the Civil War to show that as the conflict progressed, the War Office expanded into a huge machine. Studies the operations of several bureaus and the activities of Secretary Stanton.
Download or read book The American Catalogue of Books 1861 1866 with Supplement containing pamphlets sermons and addresses on the Civil War in the United States 1861 1866 and Appendix containing names of learned societies and their publications 1861 1866 written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Era of the Civil War 1820 1876 written by US Army Military History Research Collection and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steam City written by David Schley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a “rail-road” that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. They dubbed this company the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), and they conceived of it as a public undertaking—an urban improvement, albeit one that would stretch hundreds of miles beyond the city limits. Steam City tells the story of corporate capitalism starting from the street and moving outward, looking at how the rise of the railroad altered the fabric of everyday life in the United States. The B&O’s founders believed that their new line would remap American economic geography, but no one imagined that the railroad would also dramatically reshape the spaces of its terminal city. As railroad executives wrangled with city officials over their use of urban space, they formulated new ideas about the boundaries between public good and private profit. Ultimately, they reinvented the B&O as a private enterprise, unmoored to its home city. This bold reconception had implications not only for the people of Baltimore, but for the railroad industry as a whole. As David Schley shows here, privatizing the B&O helped set the stage for the rise of the corporation as a major force in the post-Civil War economy. ?Steam City examines how the birth and spread of the American railroad—which brought rapid communications, fossil fuels, and new modes of corporate organization to the city—changed how people worked, where they lived, even how they crossed the street. As Schley makes clear, we still live with the consequences of this spatial and economic order today.
Download or read book Railway Economics written by Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics and published by Chicago, University Press [1912]. This book was released on 1912 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The American catalogue of books original and reprints published in the United States written by James Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twelve Days written by Tony Silber and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the popular literature and scholarship of the Civil War, the days immediately after the surrender at Fort Sumter are overshadowed by the great battles and seismic changes in American life that followed. The twelve days that began with the federal evacuation of the fort and ended with the arrival of the New York Seventh Militia Regiment in Washington were critically important. The nation’s capital never again came so close to being captured by the Confederates. Tony Silber’s riveting account starts on April 14, 1861, with President Lincoln’s call for seventy-five thousand militia troops. Washington, a Southern slaveholding city, was the focal point: both sides expected the first clash to occur there. The capital was barely defended, by about two thousand local militia troops of dubious training and loyalty. In Charleston, less than two days away by train, the Confederates had an organized army that was much larger and ready to fight. Maryland’s eastern sections were already reeling in violent insurrection, and within days Virginia would secede. For half of the twelve days after Fort Sumter, Washington was severed from the North, the telegraph lines cut and the rail lines impassable, sabotaged by secessionist police and militia members. There was no cavalry coming. The United States had a tiny standing army at the time, most of it scattered west of the Mississippi. The federal government’s only defense would be state militias. But in state after state, the militia system was in tatters. Southern leaders urged an assault on Washington. A Confederate success in capturing Washington would have changed the course of the Civil War. It likely would have assured the secession of Maryland. It might have resulted in England’s recognition of the Confederacy. It would have demoralized the North. Fortunately, none of this happened. Instead, Lincoln emerged as the master of his cabinet, a communications genius, and a strategic giant who possessed a crystal-clear core objective and a powerful commitment to see it through. Told in real time, Twelve Days alternates between the four main scenes of action: Washington, insurrectionist Maryland, the advance of Northern troops, and the Confederate planning and military movements. Twelve Days tells for the first time the entire harrowing story of the first days of the Civil War.
Download or read book The American catalogue of books published in the United States from Jan 1861 to Jan 1866 written by James Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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