| What's
New at Confederate Railroads |
| Also, be sure to
check Recent Transcriptions for
those transcriptions added in the past month |
| Date |
Comment |
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2/24/02 |
The first generation of the site is almost
complete. The information paragraph for many of the roads remains to be
written, but the rest of the site is UP! |
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3/6/02 |
Was awarded the Bronze Smokin' Award from
Jerry Hartzler |
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3/10/02 |
Was awarded the Railroad Award from Hermann
Weigl |
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3/27/02 |
Added essay To Build a Mile of Southern Track |
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4/25/02 |
Added essay Builders of Confederate Locomotives and the chart
Locomotives by Builder |
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4/27/02 |
Added essay Specification for the General |
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5/14/02 |
Added Captured Union Locomotives to Essays |
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6/22/02 |
Added much data to Texas railroads, thanks to
input from George Werner |
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7/14/02 |
Changed Tennessee Coal Railroad to Sewanee
Mining Company Railroad |
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8/14/02 |
| Confirmed that the Portland plant only built one locomotive for the
Confederate railroads (for the Spartanburg & Union RR, but sold by them
to the South Carolina RR before the war). |
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9/2/02 |
Upon finding a definitive source document,
removed the Sewanee RR and restored the Tennessee Coal & Iron RR.
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9/11/02 |
| Added a table with the significant rail
gaps
in the cities.
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9/24/02 |
In References, identified the Annual Reports to Stockholders
that I have found and gave their locations.
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10/16/02 |
Added an Essay on Confederate Railroad Finances.
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10/17/02 |
Added an Essay and supporting pages showing
the change in shipments of goods on the Virginia & Tennessee RR as
the war progressed.
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11/6/02 |
In References, identified the Annual Reports to States
that I have found and give their locations.
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11/16/02 |
Added the specifications
for the South
Carolina Railroad's 4x6x0 "James S. Corry"
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11/20/02 |
Added a Track
page to Macon & Western RR showing the length of each
siding/turnout.
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11/29/02 |
Added Freight Classifications to Essays
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11/30/02 |
Added a Track
page to East Tennessee & Virginia RR showing the length of each
siding/turnout.
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12/4/02 |
Added a Track
page to Mobile & Ohio RR showing the length of each siding, the
water towers, warehouses, platforms, and turn tables on the entire
400-mile line
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12/8/02 |
Added a Track Sidings
page to Virginia & Tennessee RR showing the length of each siding
and the weight and type of rail used on each siding.
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1/1/03 |
Added a listing of Memphis & Charleston RR
Physical Assets
from the 1861 Annual Report
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1/2/03 |
Posted a map of Virginia railroads in 1859 (Va. RR
1859)
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1/3/03 |
Listed the Water Tanks
on the Virginia & Tennessee RR, with various details, and
listed the Buildings
owned by the railroad.
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1/4/03 |
Listed Wood Sheds
on the Virginia & Tennessee RR.
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1/26/03 |
Listed the Slaves
held by the South Carolina RR in 1861.
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1/27/03 |
Listed Inventories
of the storerooms and shops of the Petersburg RR, 1/1/1862
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2/2/03 |
Listed slaves hired by North Carolina RR in 1862
and 1864
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3/31/03 |
Listed Inventories
of the South Side RR, 9/31/1861 & 1862 & 1863
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4/1/03 |
Listed Macon & Western RR's Imports
for 1863.
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4/18/03 |
Added Shelby Iron Company Railroad
to Alabama.
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4/19/03 |
Added Shelby Coal Company Railroad
to Alabama.
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4/30/03 |
Added Montgomery & West Point
Cars Details
giving truck and spring information.
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5/1/03 |
Inserted a page on the Richmond & Petersburg
Slaves
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5/9/03 |
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5/18/03 |
Entered data on 24 railroads from the Affairs of the Southern Railroads
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5/24/03 |
Created a table of the number of Richmond & Danville
Employees
in each position for each year of the war. Added an essay on Employment Patterns at Various Confederate Railroads.
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5/25/03 |
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5/26/03 |
Added Richmond & Petersburg Railroad Employees, Virginia & Tennessee Railroad Employees
and Virginia Central Railroad Employees
tables showing occupations.
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6/11/03 |
Added a table showing the Central (of Georgia)
Articles & Passengers moved from 1861 through 1863.
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6/12/03 |
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6/13/03 |
Added tables showing the complete set of bridges on the Memphis & Charleston
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6/14/03 |
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6/15/03 |
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6/17/03 |
Added Memphis & Charleston
War Losses
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6/18/03 |
Added map Virginia & Tennessee Railroad
1856
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6/19/03 |
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6/20/03 |
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6/21/03 |
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6/23/03 |
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6/24/03 |
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6/25/03 |
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6/26/03 |
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6/28/03 |
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6/30/03 |
Added an essay on Supplies Brought Through the Blockade
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7/2/03 |
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7/3/03 |
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7/4/03 |
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7/7/03 |
Alan Edwards shared his photo of the Mobile & Girard Railroad Seal
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7/13/03 |
Added Track Repair Requirements
and Richmond & Danville
Track Repair Material 1862, 1863,
1864
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7/14/03 |
Added Freight Package Weights
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7/15/03 |
Added map Richmond Area Railroads
1856
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7/17/03 |
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7/20/03 |
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7/23/03 |
Added Virginia & Tennessee
Passengers 1860 - 1865, Virginia & Tennessee
Freight 1860 - 1865
& Virginia & Tennessee
Salt 1860 - 1865
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8/4/03 |
Added the Pensacola & Mobile Railroad.
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8/10/03 |
Created a Railroad List
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8/16/03 |
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8/22/03 |
Began to transcribe CS Government documents relating to Railroad Issues
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9/28/03 |
Began to transcribe railroad company documents relating to Railroad
Issues
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10/9/03 |
| In the last 6 weeks, I've visited the Wilmington, NC Public Library,
the Florida State Archives, the Georgia State Archives, the North
Carolina State Library, and the Virginia Historical Society. Almost all
the data I found in those locations has been entered, making major or
minor changes to several dozen pages.
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10/23/03 |
Wrote an essay on Slavery and Confederate Railroads
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11/10/03 |
Added Louisville & Nashville
Bridges
& Track
(sidings).
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11/27/03 |
Added Gordon's Mine Railroad.
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1/10/04 |
| Finished transcribing the Railroad Bureau Archives from the
Valentine Museum. |
| Added a sample of a Freight Way Bill |
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1/26/04 |
Created a table of the number of employees on the Texas & New Orleans Railroad
in 1862
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2/20/04 |
Compiled an alphabetical Index of Confederate Railroad Presidents
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2/21/04 |
Compiled an alphabetical Index of Confederate Railroad Superintendents
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3/6/04 |
| This site now contains over 1300 pages! |
| I've completed transcribing 497 web pages of original
documents, in chronological order.
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3/18/04 |
Added Site Search to the left
navigation bar.
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3/26/04 |
Added transcriptions of two reports on the rolling stock condition of
several Texas railroads in 1863. TX 9-12-63
TX 9-17-63
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4/11/04 |
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4/16/04 |
Added a dozen pages, starting
here,
showing the resources at the Railroad Bureau's Raleigh, NC Locomotive
Shop when it was shut down by the Confederate government.
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6/5/04 |
Added a list of Significant Confederate Uses of the Railroads
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6/26/04 |
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7/17/04 |
Added a page linking several examples of Annual Reports
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8/12/04 |
Rewrote the Hungary Branch Railroad
in view of information found in the Richmond, Fredericksburg &
Potomac RR records at the Library of Virginia.
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8/13/04 |
Added Tredegar Sales to Individual Railroads,
showing what was sold to each railroad in 1862.
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12/27/04 |
Transcribed and posted the 1,000th document (Essays & Documents)
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3/19/05 |
Essentially all of the railroad related letters and telegrams from the
Quarter Master General's letter book have been posted. (Essays & Documents)
The last one is from late January 1865.
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4/3/05 |
Started posting Tredegar Purchases by Railroad.
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4/23/05 |
Revised Captured Union Locomotives
based on information provided by Karl Dahlberg.
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5/27/05 |
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7/7/05 |
Added 24 transcriptions from the outgoing letter book of the Chief of
the Engineer Bureau of the Confederate Army. Two significant ones are NA, ENG 9-16-62
and NA, ENG 4-11-62
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8/12/05 |
Added Confederate Military Railroads
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8/28/05 |
Added Mississippi & Tennessee
Bridges, Buildings,
and Trestles
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9/8/05 |
Added Confederate Railroad Construction Plans
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9/9/05 |
Added the statement of work for the locomotive J. R. Anderson to NA, PIW 1-12-64
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11/18/05 |
Added two Biographies of Confederate Railroaders |
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11/19/05 |
Added major battles to the chronological lists of Original Documents to
put railroad documents in context of the war.
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11/20/05 |
Posted the 1,700th transcription.
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12/9/05 |
Added Mississippi Central
Buildings
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12/31/05 |
Added Railroad Bureau Tredegar Purchases,
Engineer Bureau Tredegar Purchases,
Non-Railroad Tredegar Purchases. |
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1/1/06 |
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1/14/06 |
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1/20/06 |
Added Femantle's Trip on Confederate Railroads
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1/21/06 |
Added 33 Railroad Photographs
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1/29/06 |
Added a page of Railroad accidents for each year of the war (Essays & Documents)
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2/18/06 |
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3/11/06 |
Posted the 1900th transcription. The most recent group has been from the
Engineer Bureau Letters Sent for early 1863 and 1865 newspaper reports
relating to the arrest of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac
RR's Superintendent on charges of giving information to the enemy. The
charges were dropped at the time, but were true, according to Mr. Ruth's
postwar claims to the Federal Government for services rendered.
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4/21/06 |
Posted the 2,000th transcription.
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6/30/06 |
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8/25/06 |
Added Northeast & Southwest
Alabama
RR Construction Effort to show how records were kept during
construction. Added "Alabama" to the name of that railroad and
added many officers.
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8/27/06 |
Posted two lists of iron required to make flat cars. UA,
A&TR 11-24-62 & UA, A&TR 9-24-64
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8/31/06 |
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9/14/06 |
Began adding transcriptions from the Tredegar Iron Works outgoing letter
books.
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10/21/06 |
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11/19/06 |
Finished
posting all the significant railroad-related letters from the Tredegar
outgoing letter books. Unfortunately, all of 1863 is missing.
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11/24/06 |
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12/22/06 |
With the discovery of the Alabama Manual and Statistical Register for
1869 and a prospectus for the Mineral Lands of the Red Mountain Iron
& Coal Company of Alabama (1868), I have removed the Cahaba Coal
Railroad since the Cahaba Mine was at the end of the South & North
Alabama RR. Also adjusted the length and stations on the South & North Alabama
RR. Also updated the Shelby Coal Company
RR, the Alabama Coal Company
RR and Confederate Railroad Construction Plans.
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1/1/07 |
Added Military Exemption Form
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1/13/07 |
Added McGence Railroad
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2/16/07 |
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3/4/07 |
Posted the 3,000th transcription.
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3/13/07 |
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3/15/07 |
Added Confederate Rolling Stock Inventory
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4/5/07 |
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7/28/07 |
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8/3/07 |
Added 16 documents to the Georgia RR, including a
request in the fall of 1863 for space on Government blockade runners for
cotton to buy supplies.
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8/10/07 |
Started a page listing the most recent
transcriptions
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9/13/07 |
Recent visits to Furman University (Greenville, S.
C.) has produced several hundred newspaper postings from New Orleans and
Mobile newspapers
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9/14/07 |
Added Railroad Time
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9/27/07 |
Added Mobile & Ohio Railroad Produce Deliveries
to show the variety and amount of deliveries, by railroad, to meet the
food needs of a city.
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9/28/07 |
Added New Orleans Railroad Produce Deliveries.
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12/31/07 |
Posted the 4,487th transcription -- that is almost
1,800 this year.
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1/1/08 |
Added Express and Freight
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1/6/08 |
Changed the McGence RR to the McGehee Railroad
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1/20/08 |
After finding enough information on the West
Feliciana RR to be sure that the McGehee Railroad was in fact the West
Feliciana RR, I have removed the McGehee RR.
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2/7/08 |
Added Cotton Through the Blockade
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4/5/08 |
Added the little Galveston & Houston Junction Railroad
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4/12/08 |
Added Wilmington Railroad Produce Deliveries
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5/4/08 |
Added Atlanta Artillery Traffic
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5/9/08 |
Just finished 17 hours at the National Archives.
The last of the Engineer Bureau Letter Book was copied, 2 additional
annual reports discovered, and a total of 325 documents copied for
transcription.
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5/11/08 |
Added Mississippi Central Railroad Inventories
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5/25/08 |
Got another 13 hours at the National Archives this
week. I've finished the Citizen's File research on all the railroads and
have started the Letters Received by the Quartermaster General.
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6/3/08 |
5,000th transcription posted! There are a few
more than 6,000 pages on this site.
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6/7/08 |
Posted the last transcription from the Engineer
Bureau's outgoing letter book. Unfortunately, it is dated only 8/13/64,
so 7 months of war are not covered, including the reconstruction after
Sherman's march.
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6/9/08 |
Added North Carolina Railroad Foundry Castings
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8/17/08 |
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8/22/08 |
Added Non-Railroads
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10/18/08 |
Added Memphis & Charleston Railroad Turntables
and Memphis & Ohio Railroad Track Sidings
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10/24/08 |
|
I have been unable to find anything to prove
that there was an Augusta & Milledgeville RR by that name. It
appears that this was a case of using the two connected towns as the
name of the road when, in fact, the legal name was the Milledgeville Railroad.
Therefore, I am removing the A&M from this site.
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| 5,500th transcription posted. |
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11/14/08 |
Added Memphis & Charleston
RR Ticket
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11/30/08 |
Added Post-Raid Repairs
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12/8/08 |
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1/21/09 |
| Since I started this site, I've added
documents from the Official Records as I ran across them. Doing
searches for the various names provided so many false hits that
I could not use that method to look for new material. Last
spring, I began to go almost page by page through the
Confederate documents in the OR -- and I have finally finished
that task. In the 130 volumes, I've found hundreds more
documents.
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1/22/09 |
Posted 12 Images of
stocks and currency issued by Confederate railroads -- all provided by
Pete Angelos.
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2/19/09 |
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2/21/09 |
Added an expanded version of the West
Point Map of Confederate Railroads
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3/3/09 |
Added Western North Carolina Railroad Bridge Description
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3/4/09 |
Added Locomotive
Shop Cover to Images. The cover was found
at webuystamps.com.
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4/30/09 |
Added Charleston & Savannah Railroad Savannah River Bridge
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5/4/09 |
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Added Confederate Railroads on Wikipedia
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| I was interviewed for three half-hour segments
of the Charlotte, NC public access tv show "True American
History" today. The first will show July 7th and the other two will
follow after 2-week gaps. Howard White produces and hosts the
show. |
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5/8/09 |
Made many small changes to the railroads in
northwest Louisiana/northeastern Texas from material provided by David
Bland of the Red River Valley Railroad Historical Society
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5/13/09 |
Began posting articles from the Vicksburg
newspapers that have been found by Sam Price.
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5/15/09 |
Posted the 6,000th transcription.
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9/20/09 |
Added Pvt. Belue's Trips on Confederate Railroads
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10/10/09 |
Added a Link concerning
engineering practices in the construction of the Manassas Gap RR
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11/12/09 |
| Visited the Texas State Library and Archives.
Copied 350 pages. |
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11/15/09 |
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11/19/09 |
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11/24/09 |
Added Washington County
Employees
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11/25/09 |
Added San Antonio & Mexican Gulf
Track
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11/26/09 |
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12/9/09 |
Added my annotated transcription of the Diary of Thomas R. Sharp
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12/24/09 |
Added Georgia Railroad Bridge
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12/25/09 |
Added calendars for all war years 1861
1862 1863
1864 1865
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12/28/09 |
Began posting the annual
reports to the stockholders of the President, Chief Engineer and
Superintendent of each Road. The first one is Presidents
Report of the Alabama & Florida (of Alabama) 7-1-61
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1/14/10 |
Added Savannah, Albany & Gulf Railroad Bridges 1863 Pt 2
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2/10/10 |
I just complete a visit to the Auburn University
Library and the Alabama State Archives. I'll be adding over 200
transcriptions from this trip. I have now visited the state archives for
all the Confederate states.
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2/21/10 |
Added a recent photograph of a culvert
on the South & North Alabama RR, constructed during the War. They are
much like those on the Louisville & Nashville RR of the same period.
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2/25/10 |
Added 4 pieces of railroad currency to Images.
They were provided by Bill Osborne, from the collection of Seymour
Priestly.
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4/27/10 |
Added Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad New Work
for 1861
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4/28/10 |
Added Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Inventories,
showing EVERYTHING a well-appointed supply department contained -- both
1861 and 1862
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6/6/10 |
Added Footnote.com
to References. This is THE way to research the National Archives
Citizens Files and Service Records.
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6/25/10 |
Added the St. Johns Railroad
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7/22/10 |
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8/8/10 |
Added Captured Memphis & Charleston RR Locomotives.
Thanks to Brian Hogan for providing the documents.
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8/10/10 |
Added An
Article of Tribute to Major Thomas Peters. Thanks to David Wake.
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8/31/10 |
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Posted images of several pieces of Mobile & Ohio
RR currency. |
| Also, an image of the
Locomotive William Jones Jr. Thanks to Stephen Ellison for the
material.
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9/2/10 |
Added a sample of a Richmond & Danville RR Freight Receipt
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9/27/10 |
Added a Link to Bill
Lockridge's Selma Research Project.
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10/21/10 |
Added Robert Black Obituary
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10/23/10 |
Provided proof of the Stonewall Jackson seizure
and removal of Baltimore & Ohio RR locomotives and rolling stock at Jackson and the Locomotive Haul
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12/11/10 |
Added several photographs of items from the Jim
Hinson collection in Images
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12/12/10 |
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12/30/10 |
Added Confederate Rolling Stock Production
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1/22/11 |
Added The Merrimac and the Railroad
about the Wilmington & Manchester RR's blockade-runner
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3/24/11 |
Added a photo of Capt. Thomas R. Sharp here
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3/29/11 |
Posted an 1898 article
on Jackson's Locomotive Haul with my extensive annotations. I posted
this because this article is used as the basis for much of what is being
written now about the operation.
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4/25/11 |
Added Centreville RR
Map and Map of the area
involved in the Jackson/Sharp locomotive haul
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6/2/11 |
Added Did Sharp Build the Centreville Railroad?
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6/27/11 |
Added Images of 2 pieces of
Western & Atlantic currency, provided by David Wake
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6/28/11 |
Added Late War Shipping
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7/26/11 |
Based on information provided by Gordon Mitchell,
a Gordon descendent, I've changed the name of Gordon's Mine RR to Nicojack
RR
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7/27/11 |
Added Image of a Raleigh
& Gaston stock certificate, provided by Jeff Dickens
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12/29/11 |
Added Richmond & Danville Bridge Guards
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3/7/12 |
Added the Columbus Tap Railroad
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4/24/12 |
Began adding transcriptions from the Clarksville Jeffersonian. Added an
image of a Memphis & Ohio RR 50 cent bill here.
Added a quote from Dabney's biography of Jackson as one more proof of
the locomotive haul here.
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4/25/12 |
Add a map of
Memphis, showing the roads the Confederacy built to connect the three
roads. Thanks to Tom Parker for identifying these additions. (www.memphisrails.com)
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5/12/12 |
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5/16/12 |
Added Railroad Transportation of Commissary Stores
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5/27/12 |
Since there are now many Union newspapers available on-line, I added Union Confederate Railroads Original Documents
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6/8/12 |
Over 9,000 Confederate documents transcribed and posted as of today.
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7/13/12 |
Finally got to use the Baltimore & Ohio RR archives (available
Fridays only). Found only a little of use; all the significant documents
relating to Jackson and Sharp and their work are missing.
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8/26/12 |
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10/16/12 |
Added Piedmont Railroad Construction Materials
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11/12/12 |
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12/16/12 |
Added Brunswick & Florida Railroad Cars
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1/19/13 |
Added Sabotage and Loss of a Railroad's Steamboat
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3/27/13 |
Added South Carolina Locomotives Lost in 1865
and South Carolina Cars Lost in 1865
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4/22/13 |
Added Major Mason
Morfit's uniform to his Biography
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6/8/13 |
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6/9/13 |
Added a photograph of a trestle on the South Side RR {here}
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7/28/13 |
Added Atlanta Armor Shipping Impact
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8/2/13 |
Added C. S. S. Virginia Armor Shipping Impact
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8/20/13 |
Added City and Area Maps of Confederate Railroads
and links to maps for many individual railroads from their home page (on
the Black's Number line)
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11/18/13 |
Added Blue Ridge (of Virginia) Railroad Tunnel Today.
Photo provided by A. P. Grice IV.
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11/19/13 |
Added Virginia Central Railroad Culvert Today.
Photo provided by A. P. Grice IV.
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12/1/13 |
Spent 4 days at the National Archives over the last two weeks. There is
still a tremendous amount to review there. One of the results of these
visits has been a large burst of transcriptions -- taking me over the 10,000-transcription
mark. |
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12/13/13 |
Added Railroad Exemptions in Virginia 1864
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12/28/13 |
Added Rules for Auditing Railroad Accounts
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1/11/14 |
Added a photo of the Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire RR's Alexandria
depot here
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2/21/14 |
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4/19/14 |
Added photograph of Cass Station
on Western & Atlantic RR
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4/21/14 |
Added sketch of Kingston,
Ga. from an 1864 Harper's Weekly
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5/27/14 |
Added a photo of Appomattox Station here
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5/29/14 |
Added a photo of models of the three locomotives used in the Great
Locomotive Chase here.
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6/20/14 |
Added a map of the Western & Atlantic RR from Marietta to Kingston,
prepared by the Road after the war here
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9/15/14 |
Replaced Virginia & Tennessee RR Buildings of 1860 with Buildings
1862
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11/23/14 |
Posted the 11,000th Confederate railroad document transcription
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11/29/14 |
Added Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac RR Journal Transactions
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1/13/15 |
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2/15/15 |
Added photographs of T-Rail and CSS Georgia Armor
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2/19/15 |
Thanks to Glenn Robertson for providing the Huntington Library holdings
of Sims' September 1863 telegrams. The first one is posted H, RRB 9-5-1863.
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2/24/15 |
Added a sketch of a Western & Atlantic RR Water Tank
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4/4/15 |
Added the North Western Railroad of Alabama
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6/8/15 |
Added Richmond & Danville & Piedmont Railroad Telegraph Form
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7/14/15 |
Posted 12,000th Confederate railroad document transcription |
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8/29/15 |
After 5 1/2 years, I've finally posted the President's and
Superintendent's reports for every annual report that I have. The last
was the Wilmington & Weldon RR |
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8/30/15 |
Added
Mississippi, Ouachita & Red River Stock 1864 and a transcription of
a receipt on the back here. |
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10/11/15 |
Added Mobile Iron Wharfage |
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11/18/15 |
Added photo of a Richmond & Danville RR
Baggage Tag and thanks to
Bob McCown for spotting it. |
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1/1/16 |
Starting the new year with over 12,500 transcribed Confederate
documents. Now that Confederate ledger books can be downloaded from the
National Archives, I will have several thousand more documents up this
year. |
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7/17/16 |
Added maps
Galveston 1862 |
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8/8/16 |
Added Savannah, Albany & Gulf
7pct Stock 1861. Thanks to Pete Angelos. |
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8/8/16 |
Added Map of Alabama &
Mississippi Rivers RR at Demopolis. Thanks to Richard McCardle. |
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1/1/17 |
Started the year with 14,354 Confederate RR Documents posted; total of
16,267 total web pages on the site. |
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3/1/17 |
Published "Locomotives Up the Turnpike" re: Sharp, the Haul and this War
career ***** HERE ***** |
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4/8/17 |
Added Food Shipments
to Portsmouth |
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4/9/17 |
Added Major
Smith's Commissary Reports |
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9/4/17 |
Added
Memphis & Charleston Railroad Machine Shop Production |
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11/14/17 |
Added Outfitting A New
Railroad |
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11/15/17 |
Added status reports for the construction of the
Northeast & Southwest
Alabama Railroad |
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12/31/17 |
Ended the year with 16,500 transcriptions and about 19,000 total pages
on the site. |
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1/17/18 |
Added map of the Memphis & Charleston RR shops and depots at Huntsville,
Ala. 1861 and a photo of
the Huntsville Passenger Depot here |
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1/23/18 |
Added a photo of Northeast &
Southwest Alabama RR Track by Richard McCardle. |
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2/3/18 |
Added Confederate
Transportation Agents |
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5/13/18 |
Posted ten transcriptions of John M. Robinson letters found at William &
Mary University |
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6/8/18 |
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6/25/18 |
Added page on
Confederate Railroad Conventions |
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11/16/18 |
Added a description of the Blue Ridge
Railroad Route |
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11/21/18 |
Added a Union spy's report on deep South RRs in 1863
here |
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12/9/18 |
Added New
Orleans, Opelousas & Great Western Railroad Bridges |
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12/14/18 |
Thanks to Richard Stone for locating several useful Union Official
Records |
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1/1/19 |
Started the year with 18,084 Confederate document transcriptions and a
total of 20,065 total web pages |
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2/12/19 |
Added The Four Railroad
Zones |
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5/17/19 |
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6/4/19 |
Added Northeast &
Southwest Alabama Railroad Bridges |
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9/21/19 |
Added Washington
County RR Bridge Description |
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10/24/19 |
Posted
Richmond Grain Receipts and Shipments May - July, 1863 |
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11/9/19 |
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12/20/19 |
Added 2 photos of car lead seal, from Tim Barden, and 6 photos of
company locks and tickets, from Ron Wise. |
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12/31/19 |
Ended the year with 19,291 transcriptions of period Confederate
documents. The site has 21,321 web pages. |
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2/14/20 |
Added photo of South Side RR shops and office, 1865,
Shops 1 |
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3/8/20 |
Added Transporting
Artillery on Trains |
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3/30/20 |
Added map to
NA, ENG 4-11A-63 |
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4/11/20 |
Added specifications for captured B&O locomotives
33, 34, 76 &
83, 50,
126,
188, 231 &235,
199 & 204,
208,
225 & 226 |
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4/30/20 |
Added North Carolina Railroad Shops |
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5/3/20 |
Added Memphis,
Clarksville & Louisville Railroad Track |
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6/27/20 |
Added Government
Telegraph Form |
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7/26/20 |
Added fare listings from Columbia, S. C. to Statesville, N. C.
UNC, C&SC
5-1-63 |
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11/21/20 |
Added a record of all the rail removals that I can document at
Confederate Rail Removals |
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11/28/20 |
Posted Essay
Requirements to Run A Railroad |
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12/31/20 |
Ended the year with 19,942 Confederate document transcriptions and
22,019 web pages. |
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1/18/21 |
Added Transportation Invoice |
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1/20/21 |
Completed an audit of the number of Confederate RR documents transcribed
and posted and found the number to be 20,264, with an additional 87
Union documents. This means an average of 1,066 Confederate documents
posted per year for the last 19 years. (Plus RR Data, Essays, Maps and
Images) |
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1/23/21 |
Compiled and posted
Fodder Shipments for One Month |
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2/10/21 |
Added edited and annotated copy of Sagle's Salvage Hunt Through Dixie,
recounting the post-war recovery of the B&O RR rolling stock and
machinery hauled south by Sharp
MISC, RRB
xx-xx-1975 |
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2/17/21 |
Posted CSN Coal Shipments
regarding the mid-1863 movements from Chattanooga |
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2/20/21 |
Added Richmond & Danville Tables:
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2/28/21 |
Added Virginia & Tennessee Tables:
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3/2/21 |
Added Virginia & Tennessee Tables:
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3/7/21 |
Wrote and posted
The
Construction of the Piedmont Railroad |
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3/30/21 |
Added table
Confederate Rails and Rolling Stock |
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4/4/21 |
Wrote and posted
The Construction of the Selma & Meridian Railroad |
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4/7/21 |
Wrote and posted
The
Construction of the Blue Mountain Railroad |
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4/8/21 |
Wrote and posted
The Construction of the Montgomery & Columbus Railroad |
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4/11/21 |
Wrote and posted
The Construction of the Columbia & Augusta Railroad |
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4/13/21 |
Wrote and posted
The
Construction of the Chatham Railroad |
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4/15/21 |
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4/17/21 |
Wrote and posted
The
Construction of Other Confederate Railroads |
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5/15/21 |
Wrote and posted Closing
City Rail Gaps |
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6/10/21 |
Created and posted Tredegar
Locomotives Produced |
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6/25/21 |
Posted 2 maps and 3 photos,
courtesy of C&O Historical Society (cohs.org
and
chessieshop.com) in Images |
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7/22/21 |
Created a list of links to the
Confederate Railroad Laws |
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8/7/21 |
Posted
In Relation to the Iron Business in Alabama |
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8/8/21 |
Added photos Bridge 19,
Bridge 20,
Bridge 21,
Locomotive 5 |
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9/14/21 |
Added a photo of
Major John D. Whitford and a photo of the
Raleigh & Gaston RR
Company Offices |
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9/17/21 |
Added Locomotive Haul
Drawing |
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9/23/21 |
Added 10 maps from the National Archives to
Confederate Railroad Maps |
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10/5/21 |
Added
Seaboard & Roanoke RR Weldon depot (second story is post war) |
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10/9/21 |
Added photo of a
Commissary supply depot |
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10/18/21 |
Posted a pair of photos of the Petersburg RR
Shops |
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12/31/21 |
Ended the year with 20,497 Confederate document transcriptions and
22,413 web pages |
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2/12/22 |
Added East Tennessee photos by Noah McMillan
East Tennessee &
Georgia Railroad Depot and
East Tennessee &
Virginia Railroad Culvert |
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2/23/22 |
Added South Carolina
Railroad Stations Details |
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2/24/22 |
20th Birthday of the site!! 22,545 pages |
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7/1/22 |
Began transcribing some 500 pages of Capt. L. P. Grant's mostly outgoing
letter files |
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8/26/22 |
Posted the 21,000th Confederate transcription |
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10/23/22 |
Added Biography of L. P.
Grant |
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11/19/22 |
Added Biography of
John H. Averill |
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11/20/22 |
Added Biography of John
Kleckley |
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12/15/22 |
Added Elements of a New
Railroad |
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12/31/22 |
Ended the year with 21,410 Confederate document transcriptions and
23,321 pages |
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3/5/23 |
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3/17/23 |
Added a Tidbits |
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8/6/23 |
Added Richmond, Fredericksburg &Potomac RR Employees (Employment
Patterns at Various Confederate Railroads) |
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8/26/23 |
Added Biography
of Charles Maurice Smith |
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1/1/24 |
Ended the year with 21,871 Confederate document transcription and 23,795
pages |
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1/9/24 |
Added Alexandria &
Washington Railroad |
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2/17/24 |
Added Agent
Obtaining Coal in Chattanooga |
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4/15/24 |
Noted that Western & Atlantic RR locomotive numbering may have been post
war and may not have been permanently assigned. |
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4/18/24 |
Added Biography of
Douglas Bell |
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5/25/24 |
Added Lee's Land Ironclad |
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6/12/24 |
Added
Importing Railroad Rails and Rolling Stock |
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6/14/24 |
Added Transportation Request |
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7/3/24 |
Added
Transfer of Army of Tennessee to East, 1865 |
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8/22/24 |
Posted Missing Railroad
Telegrams asking for help |
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10/6/24 |
Added maps of Weldon
RRs and Defenses.,
Petersburg RRs, East Side of City and
Mobile RRs and
Defenses and also drawing of the framework of the
Trestle over Holsten at 7 mile ford and on Saltville Branch, Virginia &
Tennessee RR |
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11/23/24 |
Compiled
Confederate Railroad Bureau Chiefs' Travels |
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12/23/24 |
Wrote
Government Control of Confederate Railroads |
