Iron Confederacies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iron Confederacies write by Scott Reynolds Nelson. This book was released on 2005-10-12. Iron Confederacies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed during the Civil War. In the process of linking Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia by rail, this alliance created one of the largest corporations in the world, engendered bitter political struggles, and transformed the South in lasting ways, says Scott Nelson. Iron Confederacies uses the history of southern railways to explore linkages among the themes of states' rights, racial violence, labor strife, and big business in the nineteenth-century South. By 1868, Ku Klux Klan leaders had begun mobilizing white resentment against rapid economic change by asserting that railroad consolidation led to political corruption and black economic success. As Nelson notes, some of the Klan's most violent activity was concentrated along the Richmond-Atlanta rail corridor. But conflicts over railroads were eventually resolved, he argues, in agreements between northern railroad barons and Klan leaders that allowed white terrorism against black voters while surrendering states' control over the southern economy.
Ironmaker to the Confederacy
Ironmaker to the Confederacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ironmaker to the Confederacy write by Charles B. Dew. This book was released on 1999. Ironmaker to the Confederacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Charles Dew's unsurpassed Ironmaker to the Confederacy tells the story of the South's premier ironworks & its intrepid owner, Joseph Reid Anderson. Dew's detailed & rich account masterfully describes Tredegar's struggle to supply the Confederate nation with the weapons of war & is a seminal study of southern manufacturing & industrial slavery. The revised edition includes a new preface by Dr. Dew, additional illustrations, and redesigned maps of the ironworks based on new site research and archaelogy.
Iron Scouts of the Confederacy
Iron Scouts of the Confederacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iron Scouts of the Confederacy write by Lee McGiffin. This book was released on 2007-08. Iron Scouts of the Confederacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Civil War story about two teenagers who fought for southern independence.
The Railroads of the Confederacy
The Railroads of the Confederacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Railroads of the Confederacy write by Robert C. Black III. This book was released on 2018-08-25. The Railroads of the Confederacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Clad in Iron
Clad in Iron - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clad in Iron write by Howard J. Fuller. This book was released on 2007-12-30. Clad in Iron available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work addresses many persistent misconceptions of what the monitors were for, and why they failed in other roles associated with naval operations of the Civil War (such as the repulse at Charleston, April 7, 1863). Monitors were 'ironclads'- not fort-killers. Their ultimate success is to be measured not in terms of spearheading attacks on fortified Southern ports but in the quieter, much more profound, strategic deterrence of Lord Palmerston's ministry in London, and the British Royal Navy's potential intervention. The relatively unknown 'Cold War' of the American Civil War was a nevertheless crucial aspect of the survival, or not, of the United States in the mid 19th-century. Foreign intervention—explicitly in the form of British naval power—represented a far more serious threat to the success of the Union blockade, the safety of Yankee merchant shipping worldwide, and Union combined operations against the South than the Confederate States Navy. Whether or not the North or South would be 'clad in iron' thus depended on the ability of superior Union ironclads to deter the majority of mid-Victorian British leaders, otherwise tempted by their desire to see the American 'experiment' in democratic class-structures and popular government finally fail. Discussions of open European involvement in the Civil War were pointless as long as the coastline of the United States was virtually impregnable. Combining extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, this work offers an in-depth look at how the Union Navy achieved its greatest grand-strategic victory in the American Civil War. Through a combination of high-tech 'machines' armed with 'monster' guns, intensive coastal fortifications and a new fleet of high-speed Union commerce raiders, the North was able to turn the humiliation of the Trent Affair of late 1861 into a sobering challenge to British naval power and imperial defense worldwide.
