Railroaded

in collaboration with The Spatial History Project


This account and what follows is drawn largely from Samuel Richey Kamm, "The Civil War Career of Thomas A. Scott," (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1940).

See also, Robert C. Angevine, The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America (Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2004), 133-34.