Rails To Oblivion The Decline Of Confederate Railroads In The Civil War Illustrated Edition
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Rails To Oblivion The Decline Of Confederate Railroads In The Civil War Illustrated Edition
Author | : Dr. Christopher R. Gabel |
Publsiher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 2014-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781782895701 |
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Includes 2 charts, 7 maps, 7 figures and 5 Illustrations. Renowned Military Historian Dr Christopher Gabel charts the decline of the Confederate Railways system that was to spell ultimate doom to the outnumbered soldiers of the Southern states. Military professionals need always to recognize the centrality of logistics to military operations. In this booklet, Dr. Christopher R. Gabel provides a companion piece to his “Railroad Generalship” which explores the same issues from the other side of the tracks, so to speak. “Rails to Oblivion” shows that neither brilliant generals nor valiant soldiers can, in the long run, overcome the effects of a neglected and deteriorating logistics system. Moreover, the cumulative effect of mundane factors such as metal fatigue, mechanical friction, and accidents in the civilian workplace can contribute significantly to the outcome of a war. And no matter how good some thing or idea may look on paper, or how we delude ourselves, we and our soldiers must live with, and die in, reality. War is a complex business. This booklet explores some of the facets of war that often escape the notice of military officers, and as COL Jerry Morelock intimated in his foreword to “Railroad Generalship,” these facets decide who wins and who loses.
Rails to Oblivion
Author | : Christopher Richard Gabel |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : LCCN:2002012390 |
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Explores how mundane factors such as mental fatigue, mechanical friction, and accidents in the civilian workplace can have a cumulative and significant contribution to the outcome of a war.
Railroad Generalship Foundations Of Civil War Strategy Illustrated Edition
Author | : Dr. Christopher R. Gabel |
Publsiher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2014-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781782895695 |
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Includes 4 figures, 13 maps and 4 tables. Renowned Military Historian Dr Christopher Gabel investigates the effects of the Railroad on the strategies employed by both the Union and Confederate Generals of the Civil War. According to an old saying, “amateurs study tactics: professionals study logistics.” Any serious student of the military profession will know that logistics constantly shape military affairs and sometimes even dictate strategy and tactics. This excellent monograph by Dr. Christopher Gabel shows that the appearance of the steam-powered railroad had enormous implications for military logistics, and thus for strategy, in the American Civil War. Not surprisingly, the side that proved superior in “railroad generalship,” or the utilization of the railroads for military purposes, was also the side that won the war.
The Railroads of the Confederacy
Author | : Robert C. Black III |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 2018-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781469650302 |
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Originally published by UNC Press in 1952, The Railroads of the Confederacy tells the story of the first use of railroads on a major scale in a major war. Robert Black presents a complex and fascinating tale, with the railroads of the American South playing the part of tragic hero in the Civil War: at first vigorous though immature; then overloaded, driven unmercifully, starved for iron; and eventually worn out--struggling on to inevitable destruction in the wake of Sherman's army, carrying the Confederacy down with them. With maps of all the Confederate railroads and contemporary photographs and facsimiles of such documents as railroad tickets, timetables, and soldiers' passes, the book will captivate railroad enthusiasts as well as readers interested in the Civil War.
Railroads in the Civil War
Author | : John E. Clark, Jr. |
Publsiher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2004-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807152669 |
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By the time of the Civil War, the railroads had advanced to allow the movement of large numbers of troops even though railways had not yet matured into a truly integrated transportation system. Gaps between lines, incompatible track gauges, and other vexing impediments remained in both the North and South. As John E. Clark explains in this compelling study, the skill with which Union and Confederate war leaders met those problems and utilized the rail system to its fullest potential was an essential ingredient for ultimate victory.
The Northern Railroads in the Civil War 1861 1865
Author | : Thomas Weber |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106015560029 |
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Time has been very good to Thomas Weber's Northern Railroads in the Civil War. 1861-1865. First published by Columbia University Press in 1952, it has been out of print since the 1970s, but never out of demand. It has emerged as the premier account of the mutual influence of American railroads and the American Civil War. Not only did the railroads materially help the North to victory through movement of troops and supplies, but the war materially changed the way railroads were built, run, financed, and organized in the crucial years following the war.
Civil War Railroads
Author | : George B. Abdill |
Publsiher | : New York : Bonanza Books |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : UOM:39015006097052 |
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True story of railroads and men in the Civil War.
Victory Rode the Rails
Author | : George Edgar Turner |
Publsiher | : Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105004900481 |
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