Rails To Oblivion The Decline Of Confederate Railroads In The Civil War Illustrated Edition

Author : Dr. Christopher R. Gabel
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782895701

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Rails To Oblivion: The Decline Of Confederate Railroads In The Civil War [Illustrated Edition] by Dr. Christopher R. Gabel Pdf

Includes 2 charts, 7 maps, 7 figures and 5 Illustrations. Renowned Military Historian Dr Christopher Gabel charts the decline of the Confederate Railways system that was to spell ultimate doom to the outnumbered soldiers of the Southern states. Military professionals need always to recognize the centrality of logistics to military operations. In this booklet, Dr. Christopher R. Gabel provides a companion piece to his “Railroad Generalship” which explores the same issues from the other side of the tracks, so to speak. “Rails to Oblivion” shows that neither brilliant generals nor valiant soldiers can, in the long run, overcome the effects of a neglected and deteriorating logistics system. Moreover, the cumulative effect of mundane factors such as metal fatigue, mechanical friction, and accidents in the civilian workplace can contribute significantly to the outcome of a war. And no matter how good some thing or idea may look on paper, or how we delude ourselves, we and our soldiers must live with, and die in, reality. War is a complex business. This booklet explores some of the facets of war that often escape the notice of military officers, and as COL Jerry Morelock intimated in his foreword to “Railroad Generalship,” these facets decide who wins and who loses.

Author : Christopher Richard Gabel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Railroads
ISBN : LCCN:2002012390

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Rails to Oblivion by Christopher Richard Gabel Pdf

Explores how mundane factors such as mental fatigue, mechanical friction, and accidents in the civilian workplace can have a cumulative and significant contribution to the outcome of a war.

Author : Dr. Christopher R. Gabel
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782895695

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Railroad Generalship: Foundations Of Civil War Strategy [Illustrated Edition] by Dr. Christopher R. Gabel Pdf

Includes 4 figures, 13 maps and 4 tables. Renowned Military Historian Dr Christopher Gabel investigates the effects of the Railroad on the strategies employed by both the Union and Confederate Generals of the Civil War. According to an old saying, “amateurs study tactics: professionals study logistics.” Any serious student of the military profession will know that logistics constantly shape military affairs and sometimes even dictate strategy and tactics. This excellent monograph by Dr. Christopher Gabel shows that the appearance of the steam-powered railroad had enormous implications for military logistics, and thus for strategy, in the American Civil War. Not surprisingly, the side that proved superior in “railroad generalship,” or the utilization of the railroads for military purposes, was also the side that won the war.

Author : Robert C. Black III
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469650302

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The Railroads of the Confederacy by Robert C. Black III Pdf

Originally published by UNC Press in 1952, The Railroads of the Confederacy tells the story of the first use of railroads on a major scale in a major war. Robert Black presents a complex and fascinating tale, with the railroads of the American South playing the part of tragic hero in the Civil War: at first vigorous though immature; then overloaded, driven unmercifully, starved for iron; and eventually worn out--struggling on to inevitable destruction in the wake of Sherman's army, carrying the Confederacy down with them. With maps of all the Confederate railroads and contemporary photographs and facsimiles of such documents as railroad tickets, timetables, and soldiers' passes, the book will captivate railroad enthusiasts as well as readers interested in the Civil War.

Author : John E. Clark, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807152669

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Railroads in the Civil War by John E. Clark, Jr. Pdf

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 explains in this compelling 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.

Author : Thomas Weber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UCSC:32106015560029

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The Northern Railroads in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Thomas Weber Pdf

Time has been very good to Thomas Weber's Northern Railroads in the Civil War. 1861-1865. First published by Columbia University Press in 1952, it has been out of print since the 1970s, but never out of demand. It has emerged as the premier account of the mutual influence of American railroads and the American Civil War. Not only did the railroads materially help the North to victory through movement of troops and supplies, but the war materially changed the way railroads were built, run, financed, and organized in the crucial years following the war.

Author : George Edgar Turner
Publisher : Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015007649109

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Victory Rode the Rails by George Edgar Turner Pdf

Author : George B. Abdill
Publisher : New York : Bonanza Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015006097052

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Civil War Railroads by George B. Abdill Pdf

True story of railroads and men in the Civil War.

Author : Scott Reynolds Nelson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807876107

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Iron Confederacies by Scott Reynolds Nelson Pdf

During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed during the Civil War. In the process of linking Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia by rail, this alliance created one of the largest corporations in the world, engendered bitter political struggles, and transformed the South in lasting ways, says Scott Nelson. Iron Confederacies uses the history of southern railways to explore linkages among the themes of states' rights, racial violence, labor strife, and big business in the nineteenth-century South. By 1868, Ku Klux Klan leaders had begun mobilizing white resentment against rapid economic change by asserting that railroad consolidation led to political corruption and black economic success. As Nelson notes, some of the Klan's most violent activity was concentrated along the Richmond-Atlanta rail corridor. But conflicts over railroads were eventually resolved, he argues, in agreements between northern railroad barons and Klan leaders that allowed white terrorism against black voters while surrendering states' control over the southern economy.

Author : George Edgar Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Railroads
ISBN : LCCN:10001796

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Victory Rode the Rails: the Strategic Place of the Railroads in the Civil War /Maps by George Richard Turner by George Edgar Turner Pdf

Author : Michael Leavy
Publisher : Westholme Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 1594163294

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Railroads of the Civil War by Michael Leavy Pdf

The "iron horse" became a major weapon in the first war fully dependent on railroads. Moreover railroads would escalate and prolong the war. Leavy provides a study of trains in the Civil War through photographs and a rich narrative

Author : Robert C. Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758118406

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The Railroads of the Confederacy by Robert C. Black Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Railroads
ISBN : OCLC:911934093

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The Northern Railroads in the Civil War by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Elwood Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : OCLC:1412553711

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Railroads in the Civil War by John Elwood Clark Pdf

Author : George B. Abdill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59024952

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Civil War Railroads by George B. Abdill Pdf