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• October 16, 1864 | Letter

  Letter from station/road masters to Adna Anderson, October 16, 1864

  Labor bosses ask Adna Anderson to pressure the Quarter Master to approve the sale of winter clothing to contrabands.

• August 8, 1862 | Letter

  Letter from W. P. Smith to J. W. Garrett, August 8, 1862

  The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Master of Transportation, W. P. Smith, writes to the firm's president of the "rough" removal of a nurse from a B and O train.

• November 19, 1863 | Letter

  Letter from W. W. McCafferty to F. P. Lord, November 19, 1863

  McCafferty notes damage done to Engine Rapidan by contrabands.

• January 29, 1864 | Letter

  Letter from W. W. McCafferty to J. H. Devereaux, January 29, 1864

  An inquiry about re-hiring a blacksmith for the military railroad.

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  1861 | Photograph

  Military railroad bridge over Potomac Creek on the Richmond, Frederickburg & Potomac Railroad

  A trestle railroad bridge built by the United States Military Railroad Construction Corps.

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  1864 | Photograph

  Military Railroad Bridge over Potomac Creek, 1864

  This bridge was destroyed and rebuilt several times. In May 1862 General Irwin McDowell employed hundreds of contraband laborers, who replaced the bridge in nine days. Here, in May 1864, the U.S. Military Railroads, again with large numbers of black freedmen, constructed the bridge in forty hours. Photographs such as this one indicated the complexity, cost, and scale of the bridges across many of the South?s rivers and also conveyed the precarious, and sublime, ways the railroad was thought to defy nature.

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  July 9, 1864 | Illustration

  Military Telegraph to Ackworth, Georgia

  This image from the July 9, 1863 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts Union soldiers under the command of General William T. Sherman constructing a telegraph line along railroad tracks in Georgia.

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  May 9, 1862 | Map

  Movements near Corinth, Mississippi

  Although small, this map illustrates the interconnection of railroads and battle lines in the South.

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  May 12, 1862 | Map

  New York Daily Tribune, May 12, 1862

  This front page image illustrates the importance of maps of space and resources (including railroads) to readers of Civil War-era newspapers. Note the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad running up the center of the larger map; a number of other rail lines criss-cross the map.

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  1864 | Photograph

  No. 1. Steam engines "Telegraph" and "O. A. Bull," Atlanta, Ga., 1864

  No. 1. Steam engines ?Telegraph? and ?O. A. Bull? remained in position amid the ruins of a Confederate roundhouse in Atlanta in 1864. The South possessed some of the most beautiful depots and railroad facilities in the nation in 1861. Sherman?s campaigns sought to dismantle the Confederate railroad system and in so doing deny any claim to modernity and progress. African American workers stand atop the old Georgia Railroad flatcar.

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  May 12, 1862 | Map

  Norfolk and Vicinity

  In the wake of the Battle of Hampton Roads, the New York Daily Tribune prints a map of the waterways and fortifications near Norfolk, Virginia.

• July 1, 1862

  Pacific Railway Act of 1862

  The mechanism for the creation of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, this document is a demonstration of the intricate relationship between the business of the railroad and the business of government and expansion.

• August 31, 1865 | Payroll

  Payroll for C. H. Grenz, Blacksmith, Knoxville, TN, August, 1865

  This blacksmith's payroll from August, 1865 lists the time—in days—that C. H. Grenz spent repairing rail cars, tools and engines and details the compensation he received in Knoxville, Tennessee.

• August 31, 1865 | Payroll

  Payroll for H. N. Walker, Machinist, Knoxville, TN, August, 1865

  This machinist's payroll from August, 1865 lists the time—in days—that H. N. Walker spent working on various engines and details the compensation he received.

• August 31, 1865 | Payroll

  Payroll for J. F. Gee, Blacksmith, Knoxville, TN, August, 1865

  This blacksmith's payroll from August, 1865 lists the time—in days—that J. F. Gee spent repairing rail cars and details the compensation he received in Knoxville, Tennessee.

• August 31, 1865 | Payroll

  Payroll for James Darnell, Helper, Knoxville, TN, August, 1865

  This payroll from August, 1865 lists the time—in days—that James Darnell spent helping to repair rail cars and engines and details the compensation he received in Knoxville, Tennessee.

• August 31, 1865 | Payroll

  Payroll for Jno. Kershaw, Machinist, Knoxville, TN, August, 1865

  This machinist's payroll from August, 1865 lists the time—in days—that Jno. Kershaw spent working on various engines and details the compensation he received while working in Knoxville, Tennessee.

• August 31, 1865 | Payroll

  Payroll for Jon Chester, Machinist, Knoxville, TN, August, 1865

  This machinist's payroll from August, 1865 lists the time—in days—that Jon Chester spent working on various engines and details the compensation he received while working in Knoxville, Tennessee.

• August 31, 1865 | Payroll

  Payroll for L. Kershaw, Jr. Machinist, Knoxville, TN, August, 1865

  This junior machinist's payroll from August, 1865 lists the time—in days—that L. Kershaw spent working on engines and at various other tasks and details the compensation he received at Knoxville, Tennessee.

• August 31, 1865 | Payroll

  Payroll for L. Maguire, Machinist, Knoxville, TN, August, 1865

  This machinist's payroll from August, 1865 lists the time—in days—that L. Maguire spent working on various engines and details the compensation he received.