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| Author | Title | Comment |
| Armes, Ethel | The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama | Essential to understand the movement of coal and iron |
| Ball, Douglas B. | Financial Failure & Confederate Defeat | Clearest, most insightful look at the financial failure that so contributed to the railroads' problems |
| Bell, J. Snowden | The Early Motive Power of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad | 1912 |
| Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America (1885) | ||
| Black, Robert C. | Railroads of the Confederacy | The foundation book for understanding the whole subject (buy here) |
| Black, Robert C. | "Railroads in the Confederacy," Civil War History, Vol. 7, No. 3, September, 1961 | |
| Bonds, Russell S. | Stealing the General | 2007 book on the "Great Locomotive Chase." Good discussion of railroading on the Western & Atlantic RR. |
| Bradlee, Francis B. C. | Blockade Running During the Civil War and the Effect of Land and Water Transportation on the Confederacy | The Confederate railroads, mostly from the ORs. Printed 1925 and full of errors. |
| Brown, Cecil K. | A State Movement in Railroad Development | Origins and progress of North Carolina railroads. |
| Brown, C. K. | "A History of the Piedmont Railroad Company," N. C. Historical Review, v. 3, 1926 | |
| Brown, John K. | Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1915 | Good look at the management side of a major locomotive maker |
| Burns, Edward B. | "The Confederates Gather Steam," Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin No. 104, April, 1961 | A first effort to tell the Sharp and B&O Haul story, but new research has uncovered many errors in the article |
| Carriker, David | Railroading in the Carolina Sandhills | 4 volumes on all the railroads in the eastern Carolinas |
| Clark, John E. | Railroads in the Civil War | North & South railroad management as seen through two troop movements |
| Clark, Thomas D. | A Pioneer Southern Railroad; from New Orleans to Cairo | The construction of the roads that became part of the Illinois Central in the South |
| Cline, Wayne | Alabama Railroads | Excellent history of all Alabama railroads |
| DeFeo, Todd | The Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad | The only history of an 80-mile RR in the middle of a main line |
| Derrick, Samuel M. | Centennial History of the South Carolina Railroad | |
| Dew, Charles B. | Ironmaker to the Confederacy | Excellent history of Tredegar Iron Works |
| Doster, James F. | "Were the Southern Railroads Destroyed by the Civil War?" Civil War History, Vol. 7, No. 3, September, 1961 | |
| Estaville, Lawrence E. | Confederate Neckties | History of the Louisiana railroads |
| Fetters, Thomas | The Charleston & Hamburg | The South Carolina RR |
| Gabel, Christopher | Rails to Oblivion: The Decline of Confederate Railroads in the Civil War | |
| Gates, Paul W. | Agriculture and the Civil War | Shows why shipping food and forage consumed so much of the railroads' capacity |
| Goff, Richard D. | Confederate Supply | A good look at the whole supply problem for the Confederacy |
| Graybeal, Johnny | The Railroads of Johnson City | The East Tennessee & Virginia Railroad |
| Green, Walter R., Jr. | The Nashville & Decatur in the Civil War | Excellent history of the road |
| Hanson, Robert H. | Safety - Courtesy - Service | History of the Georgia Railroad; only a few pages on the early and Civil War years |
| Harncourt, Paul | Biography of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad | The railroad's history through quoted period documents |
| Huff, Leo E. | "Memphis & Little Rock Railroad During the Civil War," Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Autumn, 1964 | A useful history, taken mostly from Memphis newspapers |
| Hungerford, Edward | The Story of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 1827-1927 | Civil War material is hard to use because of a total lack of footnotes or a bibliography; emphasis is on a good story |
| Johnston, Angus J. | "Lee's Last Lifeline: The Richmond & Danville," Civil War History, Vol. 7, No. 3, September, 1961 | |
| Johnston, Angus J. | Virginia Railroads in the Civil War | Emphasis on the Union-controlled parts of Virginia railroads |
| Kean, Robert Garlick | Inside the Confederate Government | Head of the Bureau of War |
| Klein, Maury | History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad | |
| Kundahl, George C. | Confederate Engineer (John Morris Wampler) | Includes a couple of good stories from Wampler's unpublished journals |
| Lash, Jeffery N. | "Anthony L. Maxwell, Jr.: A Yankee Bridge Builder for the Confederacy, 1862-1865," Journal of Confederate History, Fall 1990, #6 | Good review of bridge repairing |
| Lash, Jeffery N. | Destroyer of the Iron Horse | Gen. Johnston's destruction of Confederate railroads throughout the war |
| Lee, Dan | The Mobile & Ohio Railroad in the Civil War | The war in the general vicinity of the RR |
| Marvel, William | Andersonville -- the Last Depot | Includes a lot of railroad information related to the prison |
| Mruck, Armin E. | "The Role of Railroads in the Atlanta Campaign," Civil War History, Vol. 7, No. 3, September, 1961 | |
| Muir, Andrew Forest | "The Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Railway Company, 1850-1861, and its Antecedents" | MA Essay, Rice University, 1942 |
| Nelson, Scott | Iron Confederacies | |
| Noe, Kenneth W. | Southwest Virginia's Railroad | The effect of the Virginia & Tennessee on southwest Virginia |
| Odom, Edwin | Louisiana Railroads, 1830-1880 | |
| Owen, Marie | The Story of Alabama, Vol. 2 | Information on all Alabama railroads. |
| Paterson, David E. | Frontier Link with the World | The few years of the Upson County Railroad |
| Pickenpaugh, Roger | Rescue by Rail | Troop movements to Chattanooga |
| Potts, Charles S. | "Railroad Transportation in Texas," Bulletin of the University of Texas, No. 119, March 1909 | |
| Price, Charles L. | "The Railroads of North Carolina During the Civil War," Civil War History, Vol. 7, No. 3, September, 1961 | |
| Prince, Richard E. | Atlantic Coast Line | |
| Prince, Richard E. | Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry. | |
| Prince, Richard E. | Norfolk Southern Railroad | |
| Prince, Richard E. | Steam Locomotives & History - Georgia Railroad and West Point Route | |
| Prince, Richard E. | Seaboard Air Line Railway | |
| Prince, Richard E. | Southern Railway System | |
| Prince, Richard E. | Richmond-Washington Line & Related Railroads | |
| Reed, S. G. | History of the Texas Railroads | Covers every road, but not in detail. Many errors. |
| Richardson, W. & D. | The Texas Almanac for 1861 and 1862 | |
| Rogers Locomotive Works | Locomotives & Locomotive Building | Excellent, well-illustrated history of development of locomotives, 1831-1887 |
| Sagle, Lawrence E. | Salvage Hunt Through Dixie | Unpublished manuscript, transcribed and annotated at MISC, RRB xx-xx-1975 |
| Shofner, Terrell H. and Rogers, William Warren | "Confederate Railroad Construction: The Live Oak to Lawton Connector," Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Jan. 1965) | |
| Stewart, John | Jefferson Davis' Flight from Richmond | Very detailed report of the trip down the Richmond & Danville RR |
| Stokes, Durward T. | Company Shops, the Town Built by a Railroad | The story of the North Carolina RR's town, Company Shops |
| Stone, H. David | Vital Rails | Charleston & Savannah RR in the Civil War |
| Stover, John F. | Iron Road to the West | How most American railroads got to their Civil War status |
| Stuart, Meriwether | "Samuel Ruth and General R. E. Lee: Disloyalty and the Line of Supply to Fredericksburg, 1862-1863," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 71 (1963) | |
| Surdam, David G. | Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War | Excellent look at the effect of the blockade on the railroads |
| Swank, Walbrook D. | Train Running for the Confederacy 1861-1865 | Memoir of running on the Virginia Central |
| Thomas, William G. | The Iron Way | The impact of the railroads on the South |
| Toomey, Daniel Carroll | The War Came By Train | The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad |
| Trelease, Allen W. | North Carolina Railroad, 1849-1871 | The best, most complete look at a railroad and its effects |
| Trowell, C. T. | Exploring the Okefenokee; Railroads of the Okefenokee Realm | North Florida/southeast Georgia area |
| Trudeau, Noah Andre | Southern Storm | Sherman's march. This book is essential to understanding who was where on each day of the march and who did damage to railroads and where |
| Turner, Charles W. | "The Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, 1861-1865," Civil War History, Vol. 7, No. 3, September, 1961 | |
| Turner, George E. | Victory Rode the Rails | Shows the military advantage of controlling and using the railroads during the Civil War |
| Turner, Charles W. | "The Virginia Central Railroad at War, 1861-1865" Journal of Southern History, Nov. 1946, pp 510-533. | |
| Vandiver, Frank E. | Ploughshares into Swords: Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance | |
| Watkins, J. Elfreth | The Development of the American Rail and Track, As Illustrated By the Collection in the U. S. Museum | |
| Weber, Thomas | Northern Railroads in the Civil War | The other side of the story -- shows the smallness of the Confederate effort |
| White, John H. | Cincinnati Locomotive Builders, 1845-1868 | The small builders of Cincinnati, much like Southern ones |
| White, John H. | History of the American Locomotive, 1830-1880 | ALL the details on locomotives |
| White, John H. | Short History of American Locomotive Builders in the Steam Era | |
| Wiesner, Robert A. | The Chatham Railroad | |
| Winter, R. Milton | Cotton Railroad through Mississippi: The Mississippi Central and the Illinois Central | |
| Wise, Stephen R. | Lifeline of the Confederacy | The blockade and the runners |
| Zlatkovich, Charles P. | Texas Railroads, A Record of Construction & Abandonment | |
| Annual Reports of many railroads | Reports to Stockholders, Reports to States | |
| Newspapers across the South | Newspapers Reviewed in Detail | |
| National Archives -- Citizens Files and Officers' Service Records | Fold3.com | |
| National Archives -- Letters sent by the Engineer Bureau, the Quartermaster General and many Department and Army commanders, letters received by the Secretary of War | ||
| Timetables of several railroads | ||
| US House of Representatives: Affairs of the Southern Railroads | Affairs of the Southern Railroads | |
| US House of Representatives: Railroad Statistics of the United States | ||
| Annual Reports of Internal Improvement Companies to the Virginia Board of Public Works | ||
| Appleton's Railway & Steam Navigation Guide, 1858 | ||
| Hill & Swayze's Confederate States Rail-Road & Steam-Boat Guide, 1862 | ||
| Hill & Company's Confederate States Rail-Road & Steam-Boat Guide, 1863 | ||
| Lloyd's Southern Railroad Guide, 6/1863, 10-11/1863, 6/1864 | ||