Chapter 1: Genesis, footnote 2, page 2 Ch1 fn. 2 p. 2 Tags: Referral, Histories and Biographies, Politics, Spatial Relations I take this account from Harold Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 60-65. For the system before the Civil War see, James E. Vance, Jr., The North American Railroad: Its Origin, Evolution, and Geography (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 1995), 1-124.
