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Memphis & Charleston War Losses |
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| This site is intended to show the railroads as a resource for the Confederacy. I do not intended to record the history of the destruction visited on the various roads during the war. However, one railroad so clearly listed their war losses, I thought I would list them. The unit costs are normal pre-war costs (US dollars in 1865). | |||
| Quantity | Loss | Amounts | Totals |
| ROADWAY, BRIDGES, BUILDINGS | |||
| Bridging & Trestles | |||
| 4,745 feet | Howe bridging, $30/ft | $142,350 | |
| 342 feet | Howe bridging, $20/ft | 6,240 | |
| 639 feet | Howe bridging, $27/ft | 17,253 | |
| 1,580 feet | Fink's iron bridging, $23/ft | 36,340 | |
| 5,375 feet | Trestle work, $4/ft | 21,500 | $223,683 |
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Depot Buildings |
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| 17 | Wooden buildings, $2,300 | 39,100 | |
| 7 | Brick buildings, $2,800 | 19,600 | 58,700 |
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Division Houses, Sheds, & Tank Houses |
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| 20 | Division houses, $1,000 | 20,000 | |
| 13 | Wood sheds, $800 | 10,400 | |
| 15 | Water tanks, $400 | 6,000 | |
| 7 | Portable engines, $800 | 5,600 | 42,000 |
| Tools | |||
| Tools | 4,000 | 4,000 | |
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Cars (Road) |
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| 1 | Wrecking car & equipment | 1,500 | |
| 74 | Road & hand cars, $100 | 7,400 | |
| 41 | Dumping gravel cars, $350 | 14,350 | 23,250 |
| Miscellaneous | |||
| 18,000 cords | Locomotive wood, $3 | 54,000 | |
| 135 tons | Iron rails taken from sidings, $80 | 10,800 | |
| Damage to iron rails in destroying track | 52,000 | ||
| Ties burned on track | 18,700 | ||
| Cost of relaying track | 81,542 | ||
| Chairs & spikes lost | 8,900 | ||
| 60,000 | New ties destroyed, $0.333 | 20,000 | 245,942 |
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MACHINERY & ROLLING STOCK |
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Freight Cars |
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| 241 | Box cars, $650 | 156,650 | |
| 166 | Box, flat, & stock car repairs, $300 | 49,800 | |
| 186 | Flat cars, $500 | 93,000 | 299,450 |
| Passenger & Baggage Cars | |||
| 13 | Passenger cars, 1st class, $3,000 | 39,000 | |
| 5 | Passenger cars, 2nd class, $2,000 | 10,000 | |
| 5 | 2nd class mail & branch road cars, $2,200 | 11,000 | |
| 3 | 2nd class and mail cars, $1,800 | 5,400 | |
| 6 | Baggage cars, $1,800 | 10,800 | |
| 1 | Baggage car, heavily damaged, $1,300 | 1,300 | |
| 2 | Pay cars, $2,000 | 4,000 | 81,500 |
| Machinery for Shops | |||
| Loss & damage to machinery & shop tools, including belting, shafting, pulleys, etc | 36,612 | 36,612 | |
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Locomotives |
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| 46 | Locomotives -- repairs to place them in good condition | 135,000 | |
| 2 | Locomotives condemned | 15,000 | 150,000 |
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Railroad Materials |
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| Estimated damage to wheels and axles, office furniture, safes, letter-presses, tickets, blanks, stationery, pig metal, etc | 30,000 | 30,000 | |
| TOTAL LOSS & DAMAGE | $1,195,167 | ||