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This is a list of Confederate Railroads in operation or used by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. See also Confederate railroads in the American Civil War. At the outset of the war, the Confederacy possessed the third largest set of railroads of any nation in the world, with about 9,000 miles of railroad track. [1]
As Union armies advanced deeper into Confederate territory, they gained control of former Confederate railway lines, or what remained of them. Confederate troops typically employed a scorched earth policy towards railroads during their retreats, leaving the Union troops to rebuild entire lines from scratch to make them usable. [12]
Ultimately, only 5 of Longstreet’s 10 infantry brigades arrived in time to participate in the Confederate victory at Chickamauga. [11] Following their defeat, the troops of MG William Rosecrans’ Army of the Cumberland fell back to Chattanooga, Tennessee where they were surrounded by the Confederates who occupied the heights surrounding the ...
This is a partial list of the civil engineers who worked on the USMRR during the American Civil War (1862-1867) as reported by General Daniel McCallum in 1866. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Military railroads of Virginia (1862–1866)
possibly Confederate Guerrillas: A group of armed men boarded a train and robbed it of all its valuables, it is suspected the men were Confederates angered by the south's surrender. [3] Seymour, Indiana 6 October 1866 John and Simeon Reno: John and Simeon Reno of the Reno gang robbed an Ohio and Mississippi Railway passenger train.
Great Northern Railway (GN) Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway [7] Fernley and Lassen Railway; Fredericksburg and Northern Railway [8] Hudson Bay Railway (HBR) Houston Belt & Terminal Railroad [9] Houston, East & West Texas Railroad [10] Houston & Texas Central Railway [11] Illinois Central Railroad (IC) Inter-California Railway; Intercolonial ...
The Shohola train wreck occurred on July 15, 1864, during the American Civil War on the broad gauge Erie Railroad 1 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) west of Shohola, Pennsylvania.A train carrying Confederate prisoners of war collided head-on with a coal train.
This is a list of heritage railroads in the United States; there are currently no such railroads in two U.S. states, Mississippi and North Dakota. Visitors aboard the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway in Blue Ridge, Georgia