Complete Bibliography for "The Iron Way"

A Note on Sources

Many of the sources used in this book have been digitized and are available in the “Railroads and the Making of Modern America” project. Libraries and archives continue to preserve, maintain, and make available to scholars the most important sources for understanding this period--the original documents. I have also used many of the newly available digital source collections to find materials, including Google Books, ProQuest, American Periodicals Series, and Ancestry.com. Thousands of online articles and documents have been consulted in the research for this book. These research tools have proven invaluable for sifting across collections to discover keywords, individuals, and particular events. I have also consulted secondary sources and dissertations on the Civil War era and on railroads, a large and rapidly growing and complex literature. I have focused on the most recent and relevant works, and have cited these in the notes.

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Manuscript Collections Consulted

Newberry Library

• Illinois Central Railroad Collection
• Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Collection
• Grenville Dodge Papers
• Ephraim C. Dawes Papers
• Charles T. Kruse Papers
• Henry C. Parry Papers
• James Taylor Graves Papers
• Johnson Paisley Papers
• Charles Elliott Norton Letter
• Union Pacific Railroad Company Records

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Washington, D.C.

• Record Group 92, Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General
• Record Group 92.6, Records of the Office of the Director and General Manager, Military Railroads United States
• Record Group 107, Secretary of War Records
• Record Group 109, Confederate Records
• Record Group 21, Judiciary Records
• District of Columbia Supreme Court case files
• U.S. Supreme Court case files
• Record Group 105, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

• Garrett Family Papers
• Cornelius Chase Papers
• Edward Frost Papers
• August Belmont Papers
• Horace Porter Letters

University of Chicago Library

• Illinois Central Railroad Company Papers
• Ebenezer Lane Family Papers
• Lincoln Collection, Lincoln Miscellaneous Manuscripts
• Sanford Truesdell Papers
• University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections Levi O. Leonard Papers

Chicago Historical Society

• William Savage Letter
• William Butler Letters
• Robert Tarrant Datebook
• Junius Mulvey Letter
• Alexander Prentiss Letter
• Gunther Collection
• John Kirk Letterbooks
• John Munn Collection

Library of Virginia

• Board of Public Works, Blue Ridge Railroad Correspondence
• Second Auditor, Internal Improvements Fund Records
• Executive Papers, Papers of Gov. John Floyd
• Executive Papers, Papers of Gov. Henry A. Wise
• Executive Papers, Papers of Gov. John Letcher

Woodruff Library, Special Collections, Emory University

• Sue Richardson Diary
• Richard Burch Jett Papers
• Isaac Roseberry Diary
• William Greene Raoul Papers

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History

• Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Records

Nebraska State Historical Society

• Union Pacific Railroad Records
• Sim Family Papers

University of Nebraska Libraries Special Collections

• McConihe Papers
• Charles Kennedy Railroad Collection

The Rothschild Archive, London

The Baring Archive, London

National Maritime Museum Library, Greenwich

• William Schaw Lindsay Papers

The British Library, London

• Richard Cobden Papers
• Austen Henry Layard Papers
• George Henry Herbert Letters
• Florence Nightingale Letters
• Joseph Sturge Papers
• William Gladstone Papers
• Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Papers
• John Bright Papers
• Baring Papers, Microfilm, Public Archives of Canada

Online Primary Sources

• Territorial Kansas Online
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers
• Nineteenth-Century U.S. Newspapers
• Confederate Railroads by David L. Bright
• Nineteenth-Century British Library Newspapers
• Harpweek
• Ancestry.com
• American Periodicals Series
• Making of America, Cornell University
• Making of America, University of Michigan
• Documenting the American South
• Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia
• Historical Census Browser, Geospatial and Statistical Data Center, University of Virginia
• University of Iowa Digital Library, Levi O. Leonard Railroadiana

Library of Congress, American Memory Online Sources

• Abraham Lincoln Papers
• Civil War Maps
• Railroad Maps, 1828–1900
• A Century of U.S. Lawmaking for the Nation
• Civil War Photograph Collection
• Pictorial Americana

Printed Primary Sources

• Maryland Historical Society:

  Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, printed payroll lists, 1842, 1852, 1855, 1857.

• Newberry Library:

  Fry, F. Fry’s Traveler’s Guide. Cincinnati: Applegate and Co., 1865. Illinois Central, History of the Illinois Central Railroad and Representative Employees, Chicago, 1900. Seymour, Silas. Incidents of a Trip Through the Great Platte Valley, to the Rocky Mountains and Laramie Plains, in the Fall of 1866. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1867. Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Speech of Wm. M. Burwell of Virginia, New Orleans, La., 1852. Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad, Annual Report of the officers. Clarksville, Tex.: Standard Print, 1857. “To the Members of the Permanent Committee on the New Orleans, Algiers, Attakapas, and Opelousas Railroad,” 1851. Proceedings of the Stockholders of the Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Rail-Road Company. Charleston, S.C.: A. E. Miller, 1841. Mississippi Central Railroad, Annual Report of the President and Directors. Holly Springs, Miss.: 1855–1860. Fifteenth Annual Report of the Directors and Officers of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad Company. Nashville, Tenn.: Roberts, Watterson and Purvis, 1867. New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad Company, Annual Report of the President and Directors. New Orleans: Clark and Brisbin Printers, 1850–1864. Political Speeches. 1826–1855. Johnson, A. J. New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas: With Physical Geography and with descriptions Geographical, Statistical, and Historical. New York: Johnson and Ward, 1864.

• Library of Virginia:

  Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Annual Report of the President and Directors to the Stockholders, 1826-1827 (Baltimore, 1827). Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company. Annual Report of the President and Stockholders, 1868. Northwestern Virginia Railroad Company, Annual Report of the President and Directors to the Stockholders. (1851-1852). Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, Richmond and Danville Railroad Company. Richmond: H. K. Ellyson, 1848–1857. Proceedings of a called meeting of the stockholders, held on Wednesday, June 26th, 1867. Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac and Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Comany. (Richmond: Examiner Job Office, 1867) Raleigh & Gaston Rail Road Company. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad Company, 1864. Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac. Annual Report, 1834/1835-1988. Richmond and Petersburg, Reports & Proceedings. Richmond, Va., 1836–1864. Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company. Annual Report, 1831-1832 (Winchester, Va.: Winchester Virginian)

• Texas A & M University:

  Colyer, Vincent. Brief Report of the Services Rendered by the Freed People to the United States Army in North Carolina in the Spring of 1862, After the Battle of New Bern. New York: Vincent Colyer, 1864.

• Creighton University:

  Cutler, Julia Perkins. Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler: Prepared from His Journal and Correspondence. With sketch of William P. Cutler by Ephraim C. Dawes. Cincinnati: Robert Clark and Co., 1890. Dawes, Ephraim Cutler. “The Battle of Shiloh.” In Campaigns in Kentucky and Tennessee Including the Battle of Chickamauga, 1862–1864. Papers of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Vol. II. Boston, 1908, 101–172. ------. “The Confederate Strength in the Atlanta Campaign.” In Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. 4 (1887): 281–283. ------. In Memorium, William Blackford Stephenson. Cincinnati: Peter G. Thomson, 1879. ------. “Major Ephraim C. Dawes of the 53d Ohio Volunteers and the Battle of Dallas, Georgia, May 28, 1864.” Compiled by Harriett D. Wilson. At head of text: The Accounting by Ephraim C. Dawes. Crum Letter Service. Elmhurst, Ill., 1967. Ohio Historical Society. Duke, John K. History of the 53rd Regiment Ohio Volunteers. Portsmouth, Ohio: The Blade Printing Co., 1900. Smith, William Prescott. The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857; Embracing a Full Account of the Opening of the Ohio & Mississippi, the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroads, and the Northwestern Virginia Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1858. Stevenson, William G. Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army, Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures by an Impressed New Yorker. New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1862 and 1864. Whitney, Asa. “A Project for a Railroad to the Pacific,” 1849.

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• Coclanis, Peter. "Off Track: The Railroading of Antebellum Southern Economic History," Social Science Quarterly Vol. 84 No. 3 (2003): 738-743.
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• Collins, Steven G. "Progress and Slavery on the South's Railroads," Railroad History, Autumn 1999.
• --------. "System in the South: John W. Mallet, Josiah Gorgas, and Uniform Production at the Confederate Ordnance Department," Technology and Culture 40.3, 1999.
• Connolly, Michael J. Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003.
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• --------. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1991.
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• --------. The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.
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• ---------, ed., The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
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• Lawson, Melinda. Patriot Fires: Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil War North. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.
• -------. “'A Profound National Devotion': The Civil War Union Leagues and the Construction of a New National Patriotism,” Civil War History Vol. 48 No. 4 (December 2002): 338-362.
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Dissertations and Theses

(Note: Some dissertations especially those in 2010 were not available as The Iron Way went to press but are listed here for reference)

• Adams, Sean Patrick. "Old Dominions and Industrial Commonwealths: The Political Economy of Coal in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1810-1875," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999.
• Aldrich, Gene. "A history of the coal industry in Oklahoma to 1907," Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Oklahoma, 1952.
• Barnette, Jane Stewart. "Locomotive leisure: The effects of railroads on Chicago-area theatre, 1870--1920," Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 2003.
• Bailey, Rebecca J. "Matewan before the massacre: Politics, coal, and the roots of conflict in Mingo County, 1793--1920," Ph.D. Dissertation, West Virginia University, 2001.
• Bawden, Timothy Todd. "Reinventing the frontier: Tourism, nature, and environmental change in northern Wisconsin, 1880--1930," Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2001.
• Bischoff, Wayne Lawrence. "The development of the Wabash and Erie Canal (1832--1875) in central Indiana and its affect on evolving Wabash Valley settlement," Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University, 2000.
• Baumli, Joseph Walden. "Prairie trails, iron rails, and tall tales: The settling, town building, and people of Nodaway County, Missouri, 1839--1910," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Missouri - Kansas City, 2004.
• Bays, Brad Alan."A Historical Geography of Town Building in the Cherokee Nation, 1866-1907," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1996.
• Berkowitz, Christine Ann. "Railroad Crossings: The Transnational World of North America, 1850-1910," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto, 2009.
• Bonner, Robert E. "Americans Apart: Nationality in the Slaveholding South," Ph.D Dissertation, Yale University, 1998.
• Borrer, Jennifer Michelle. "The Road to Success is Paved with More Than Good Intentions: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Colored Trainmen of America," M. A. Thesis, Texas A. & M. University-Kingsville, 1998.
• Boscoe, Francis Peter. "Modernity and the tragedy of development in Pennsylvania, 1826--1842," Ph.D. Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University, 2000.
• Brawley, Lisa C. "Fugitive Nation: Slavery, Travel, and Technologies of American Identity," 1830-1860," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1995.
• Case, Theresa Ann. "Free labor on the southwestern railroads: The 1885--1886 Gould System strikes," Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 2002.
• Castellano, Donna McPherson. "A promise delayed: The politics of banking, railroad, and mineral development in Alabama: 1846--1860," M.A. Thesis, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2001.
• Cheung, Henry Fay. "Chinese Americans: Builders of early California and the West," M.A. Thesis, California State University, Fullerton, 2003.
• Collins, Steven Gedson. "Organizing the South: Railroads, plantations, and war," Ph.D. Dissertation, The Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1999.
• Cummings, Adele Josephine. "Governing the Economy: The Process and Politics of Government Involvement in the Railroads in Canada and the United States, 1850-1885," Ph. D. Dissertation, Duke University, 1995.
• Davis, Robert Scott, Jr. "Cotton, Fire, and Dreams: The Robert Findlay Iron Works and Heavy Industry in Macon, Georgia, 1839-1912," M.A. Thesis, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1996.
• Dean, Adam Wesley. "An Agrarian Republic: How Conflict over Land Use Shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction," Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Virginia, 2010.
• Dee, Christine Doyle. "Land Worth Fighting For: Scioto County, Ohio and Madison County, Alabama during the American Civil War," Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 2002.
• Diamond, David. "Migrations: Henderson Luelling and the cultivated apple, 1822--1854," Ph.D. Dissertation, Northern Arizona University, 2004.
• Eelman, Bruce William. "Progress and community from Old South to New South: Spartanburg County, South Carolina, 1845--1880," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maryland College Park, 2000.
• Faulkner, Carol."The Hard Heart of the Nation: Gender, Race and Dependency in the Freedmen's Aid Movement," Ph.D. Dissertation, State University of New York, Binghamton, 1998.
• Fink, Tiffany Marie Haggard. "The Fort Worth and Denver City Railway: Settlement, development, and decline on the Texas high plains," Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas Tech University, 2004.
• Gagnon, Michael John. "Transition to an industrial South: Athens, Georgia, 1830--1870," Ph.D. Dissertation, Emory University, 1999.
• Greene, Ann Norton. "Harnessing power: Industrializing the horse in nineteenth century America," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2004.
• Holzweiss, Robert F. "Politics, profits and the public interest: Government, railroads, and interest groups, 1827--1976," Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas A&M University, 2001.
• Hotz, Jeffrey Prescott. "Divergent visions, contested spaces: Literary reflections on the early United States through real and imagined journeys, 1783--1853," Ph.D. Dissertation, The George Washington University, 2004.
• Huebner, Donald James. "From the foothills to the crest: Landscape history of the southern Manzano Mountains, Central New Mexico, United States of America since 1800," Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 2002.
• Hughes, Marla Jon. "Social Relations in a Railroad Town: The Locomotive Engineers, Locomotive Firemen, and Switchmen of Galesburg, Illinois, and the Burlington Strike of 1888," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maryland College Park, 1996.
• Jackson, Jill Carson. "Along Came a Spider: Visions and Realities of Railroad Development in Fort Worth, Texas, 1873-1923, A Cartographic Approach," M. A. Thesis, University of Texas at Arlington, 1996.
• Johnson, Freddie Lee, III. "The tracks of War: Confederate strategic rail policy and the struggle for the Baltimore and Ohio," Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, 1999.
• Johnson, Larry E. "Breakdown from within: Virginia railroads during the Civil War era," M.A. Thesis, University of Louisville, 2004.
• Kalson, Michael. "Railroads and Economies of Scale and Scope in U. S. Manufacturing Industries, 1850-1880--Chandler Revisited," Ph.D. Dissertation, City University of New York, 2010.
• Kim, Monte George. "The Southern Pacific Railroad and the making of place and community in California," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005.
• King, Spurgeon C. "The Geography of Civil War: Conflict and Legacy in Upper East Tennessee," Ph.D. Dissertation, Middle Tennessee State University, 2009.
• Koenig, Alan Robin. "Ironclads on Rails: American Civil War Railroad Weapons, 1861-1865," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1995.
• Krug, James Norman. "Benjamin Franklin Yoakum and the St. Louis, Brownsville, and Mexico Railroad," M. A. Thesis, Texas A & M University-Kingsville, 1999.
• Kvale, Nicole Ingrid. "Emigrant Trains: Migratory Transportation Networks through Germany and the United States, 1847-1914," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009.
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