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A War Fought Around and on This Railroad; A Railroad that Also Had the Distinction of Performing the 'Marriage of Waters,' Read About it
Memphis, TN (PRWEB) February 15, 2006 -- In the 1830’s, in a small town in Alabama called Tuscumbia, cotton businessmen brought a short line Railroad into fruition, during a time when Indian life was still very prevalent, making it the first railroad chartered west of the Alleghenies, and ultimately the first Railroad to link the Mississippi River Valley with the Atlantic sea coast at Charleston, S. C. Early in this book are described the efforts of many notable men of the 1830’s thru the 1850’s to both convince a skeptical population on the value and need of a Railroad, and in the actual trials and tribulations of building this Railroad to be finally called the Memphis and Charleston railroad.
Once completed and operating well, this railroad was plunged into the Civil War and throughout that period was fought over, destroyed, rebuilt, fought over again, and again, to ultimately cease operations all together until wars end.
Reconstruction of the road was begun in 1865 with the approval of the Union Government, and certain financial interests gained through the war by it’s President Sam Tate, and for several years thereafter prospered to some degree until final its absorption into the Southern Railway System.
Paul Harncourt (Don Dobravolsky)
1000 Brisbane Lane. Huntsville, Alabama, 35803
256-881-0082
ISBN
1598001728
Retail Price(s)
$21.66
Size and Format(s)
Laminated Hardback 9.21 X 6.14
Page Count
225
Availability
Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Amazon.com, B&N.com, www.outskirtspres.com/Paul_Harncourt_MandC_Railroad
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