Contents

Prologue Part I: Tools

Chapter 1: Slavery, the South, and "Every Bar of Railroad Iron"
Chapter 2: Railroads, the North, and "The Velocity of Progress"

Part II: Leviathan

Chapter 3: Secession and a Modern War
Chapter 4: Fighting the Confederate Landscapes
Chapter 5: The Railroad War Zones
Chapter 6: The Confederate Nation "Cut Off from the World"
Chapter 7: The Railroad Strategy

Part III: Vortex

Chapter 8: After Emancipation
Epilogue: The Road to Promontory Summit

Acknowledgments

Appendix (with additional tables and charts)

A Note on Sources (join our Zotero group)

Notes

Index