Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and ReconstructionDuring Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed during the Civil War. In the process of linking Virginia, th |
Contents
Forcing Nature An Iron Confederacy Surveyed and Graded | 11 |
The Confederacy Serves the Southern | 27 |
Connections Political Reconstruction and the Public Fiction of the Air Line 18651871 | 47 |
The Pennsylvania Railroads Consolidation and the Return of the Confederacy | 71 |
Alamance A Trenchant Blade | 95 |
Pockets Full of Executions The Railway Corridor in South Carolina | 115 |
Public Fictions | 139 |
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