Vital Rails: The Charleston & Savannah Railroad and the Civil War in Coastal South Carolina
- ISBN-10
- 1570037167
- ISBN-13
- 9781570037160
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 369
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Univ of South Carolina Press
- Author
- H. David Stone
Description
Spanning more than one hundred miles across rice fields, salt marshes, and seven rivers and creeks, the Charleston & Savannah Railroad was designed to revolutionize the economy of South Carolina's lowcountry by linking key port cities. This history of the railroad records the story of the C&S and of the men who managed it during wartime.
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