Memphis & Charleston War Losses

This site is intended to show the railroads as a resource for the Confederacy. I do not intended to record the history of the destruction visited on the various roads during the war. However, one railroad so clearly listed their war losses, I thought I would list them. The unit costs are normal pre-war costs (US dollars in 1865).
Quantity Loss Amounts Totals
ROADWAY, BRIDGES, BUILDINGS
Bridging & Trestles
4,745 feet Howe bridging, $30/ft $142,350  
342 feet Howe bridging, $20/ft 6,240  
639 feet Howe bridging, $27/ft 17,253  
1,580 feet Fink's iron bridging, $23/ft 36,340  
5,375 feet Trestle work, $4/ft 21,500 $223,683

Depot Buildings

17 Wooden buildings, $2,300 39,100  
7 Brick buildings, $2,800 19,600 58,700

Division Houses, Sheds, & Tank Houses

20 Division houses, $1,000 20,000  
13 Wood sheds, $800 10,400  
15 Water tanks, $400 6,000  
7 Portable engines, $800 5,600 42,000
Tools
  Tools 4,000 4,000

Cars (Road)

1 Wrecking car & equipment 1,500  
74 Road & hand cars, $100 7,400  
41 Dumping gravel cars, $350 14,350 23,250
Miscellaneous
18,000 cords Locomotive wood, $3 54,000  
135 tons Iron rails taken from sidings, $80 10,800  
  Damage to iron rails in destroying track 52,000  
  Ties burned on track 18,700  
  Cost of relaying track 81,542  
  Chairs & spikes lost 8,900  
60,000 New ties destroyed, $0.333 20,000 245,942

MACHINERY & ROLLING STOCK

Freight Cars

241 Box cars, $650 156,650  
166 Box, flat, & stock car repairs, $300 49,800  
186 Flat cars, $500 93,000 299,450
Passenger & Baggage Cars
13 Passenger cars, 1st class,  $3,000 39,000  
5 Passenger cars, 2nd class, $2,000 10,000  
5 2nd class mail & branch road cars, $2,200 11,000  
3 2nd class and mail cars, $1,800 5,400  
6 Baggage cars, $1,800 10,800  
1 Baggage car, heavily damaged, $1,300 1,300  
2 Pay cars, $2,000 4,000 81,500
Machinery for Shops
  Loss & damage to machinery & shop tools, including belting, shafting, pulleys, etc 36,612 36,612

Locomotives

46 Locomotives -- repairs to place them in good condition 135,000  
2 Locomotives condemned 15,000 150,000

Railroad Materials

  Estimated damage to wheels and axles, office furniture, safes, letter-presses, tickets, blanks, stationery, pig metal, etc 30,000 30,000
TOTAL LOSS & DAMAGE $1,195,167

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