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- Feb 5, 2017
I'm reading "Battle Cry of Freedom" by McPherson and he has a couple of pages devoted the transportation revolution - railroads and canals. I'm sure some of you hard-core rail men knew this but I didn't AND I wonder if the Civil War could even have happened (certainly not on the scale it did) if there weren't railroads.
"The 9,000 miles of rail in the United States by 1850 led the world, but paled in comparison with the 21,000 additional miles laid during the next decade, which gave the United States in 1860 a larger rail network than the rest of the world combined."
"The 9,000 miles of rail in the United States by 1850 led the world, but paled in comparison with the 21,000 additional miles laid during the next decade, which gave the United States in 1860 a larger rail network than the rest of the world combined."