| Confederate Uses of the Railroads | |
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I encourage you to contact me with additional railroad uses -- dates and references will be most helpful. Troop movements need to be at least division-size for this list. |
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| 1861 | Movement of Johnston's army to join Beauregard's at First Manassas |
| 1861 | Movement of Hardee's division from Columbus, Ky to Bowling Green |
| 1862 | Evacuation of Pensacola |
| 1862 | Evacuation of New Orleans |
| 1862 | Evacuation of Nashville |
| 1862 | Pre-Shiloh concentration |
| 1862 | Reinforcements from the South to Jackson in the Valley |
| 1862 | Movement of Jackson from the Valley to the Seven Days Battle |
| 1862 | Movement of various brigades from Richmond to the start line for the 2nd Manassas campaign |
| 1862 | Movement of Breckinridge's division from Jackson to Holly Springs |
| 1862 | Bragg's army from Mississippi to Chattanooga |
| 1862 | Bragg's army from Chattanooga to Murfreesboro |
| 1863 | Longstreet's corps to and from Suffolk |
| 1863 | Longstreet's corps from Chattanooga to Knoxville |
| 1864 | Pickett's division from Lee to eastern North Carolina and back |
| 1864 | Early's corps from Richmond to the Valley |
| 1864 | Longstreet's corps from near Knoxville to Richmond |
| 1864 | Various brigades from the Carolinas to Lee during the Wilderness battle |
| 1864 | Hardee's corps from Johnston to Polk and back |
| 1864 | Reynolds' division from Mobile to Johnston |
| 1864 | Polk's army from Mississippi to Johnston in Northern Georgia |
| 1864 | Beauregard's brigades from eastern North Carolina and Charleston to Petersburg |
| 1864 | Hoke's division from Petersburg to Lee and back |
| 1864 | Hoke's division from Petersburg to Wilmington |
| 1865 | Evacuation of Charleston and concentration at Cheraw, S. C. |
| 1865 | Butler's cavalry division (less horses) from Richmond to Columbia, S. C. |
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| 1861-1864 | POWs from all armies to Richmond |
| 1862 | Bragg's army from Chattanooga to near Kentucky |
| 1862 | Bragg's army back from Kentucky |
| 1863 | Longstreet's corps from Richmond to Chickamauga |
| 1863-1864 | POWs from Virginia to North Carolina and Georgia |
| 1864-5 | Army of Tennessee from Alabama to North Carolina |
| Logistical/Industrial | |
| 1861 | Initial mobilization of troops and transportation to places of duty |
| 1861 | Distribution of guns from Norfolk throughout the Confederacy |
| 1861 | Purchased food from Kentucky to the Central Confederacy |
| 1862 | Mobilization of the new units formed when conscription began |
| 1861-1864 | Lead from Southwestern Virginia to Richmond |
| 1861-1863 | Copper from Southeastern Tennessee to Richmond |
| 1861-1864 | Salt from Southwestern Virginia to the rest of the Eastern Confederacy |
| 1862-1864 | Distribution of blockade runner imports to the rest of the Eastern Confederacy |
| 1862-1863 | Food from Trans-Mississippi to the Eastern Confederacy |
| 1862-1864 | Distribution of internal war production to other producers, to cities and to the armies |
| 1862-1864 | Food from Florida, Northern Alabama, and Central Georgia to the army in Eastern Tennessee and Northern Georgia |
| 1863-1864 | Cotton to Wilmington and Charleston for blockade runners |
| 1863-1864 | Food from Southwestern Georgia to Richmond |
| 1863-1865 | Relocation of industries and government offices from Richmond to other locations |