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" Rescue by rail : "
Roger Pickenpaugh.
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BL
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| Record Number
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585836
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b415055
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| Main Entry
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Pickenpaugh, Roger.
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| Title & Author
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Rescue by rail : : troop transfer and the Civil War in the West, 1863 /\ Roger Pickenpaugh.
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| Publication Statement
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Lincoln :: University of Nebraska Press,, c1998.
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xv, 244 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0803237200 (alk. paper)
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: 9780803237209 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-235) and index.
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| Contents
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Network of iron -- Rebels ride the rails -- Plans and personalities -- West to the Ohio -- Like an oasis -- Return to the Confederacy -- We are nearly out of the world -- You have opened up our bread line -- Wauhatchie -- Epilogue : aftermath of battle.
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| Abstract
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This is the story of the first great Federal troop movement by rail and of the corresponding Confederate transfer of General James Longstreet's troops a few weeks previously. The contrast between the two operations points up the Union advantages in technology, infrastructure, and mobility that would offset the Confederate advantage of interior lines. An important study of a critical movement, the work also benefits from an assembly of anecdotes and comments from the troops involved.
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Railroads-- Southwest, Old-- History-- 19th century.
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Southwest, Old, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Transportation.
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United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Transportation.
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| Dewey Classification
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973.7
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E470.4.P53 1998
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