Railroads In The Civil War

The Civil War is a war in which railroads were a major factor. During the 1850's the world had seen growth in the railroad industry so that by 1861, 22,000 miles of track had been laid in the Northern states and around 9,550 miles in the South. The great rail centers the South were Chattanooga and most important Richmond.Wars have been fought to control supply centers, but the Confederate govt. was very slow to recognize the importance of the railroads in the conflict. By sometime in September 1863, the Southern railroads were in a such bad shape. They had begun to deteriorate very soon after the outset of the war. 100 railroads that existed in the South near 1861 were much more than 100 miles long. The South had showed less enthusiastic about
These "Batteries" blasted through the shields embrasures and then bounced along the length of the cars, arrested by ropes, as a recoil. The track crews then reload the weapons and had pushed them back into their normal battery position. Some relied on mobility, since they we'rent all armored. They also covered firing positions when they could, and others railroad batteries had counted on their great range. With such useful abilities, railroad artillery was perfectly appropriate for head-to-head encounters between their opposing
Naval events which included a fight between vessels Monitor and Merrimack. Shortly after the battle, ‘monitor fever’ had swept the whole nation as all of the ironclad supporters gathered for the construction of a huge ironclad army, or their fleet. Army officers also had caught the monitor fever.The very first box car was assembled in iron. Light weight artillery pieces were shot out from the holes, or hatchets in a way. More smaller-arms were cut in through the sides which had allowed infantry soldiers to supply ammunition. It was the main source of fire of the guns used. The car’s of the trains armor was just barely thick enough to withstand the fire of small-arm.Many of the railroad monitors had to carry so many foot soldiers at a time. Ammunition and guns from within the surrounding areas of a railroad car was dangerous. Most of all, monitors carried the riflemen with inside the cars. It had an artillery piece located & mounted on the car. This had separated the foot soldiers from the artillery while considerably increasing