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What's New at Confederate Railroads
Also, be sure to check Recent Transcriptions for those transcriptions added in the past month
Date Comment

2/24/02

The first generation of the site is almost complete. The information paragraph for many of the roads remains to be written, but the rest of the site is UP!

3/6/02

Was awarded the Bronze Smokin' Award from Jerry Hartzler

3/10/02

Was awarded the Railroad Award from Hermann Weigl

3/27/02

Added essay To Build a Mile of Southern Track

4/25/02

Added essay Builders of Confederate Locomotives and the chart Locomotives by Builder

4/27/02

Added essay Specification for the General

5/14/02

Added Captured Union Locomotives to Essays

6/22/02

Added much data to Texas railroads, thanks to input from George Werner

7/14/02

Changed Tennessee Coal Railroad to Sewanee Mining Company Railroad

8/14/02

Confirmed that the Portland plant only built one locomotive for the Confederate railroads (for the Spartanburg & Union RR, but sold by them to the South Carolina RR before the war).

9/2/02

Upon finding a definitive source document, removed the Sewanee RR and restored the Tennessee Coal & Iron RR.

9/11/02

Added a table with the significant rail gaps in the cities.

9/24/02

In References, identified the Annual Reports to Stockholders that I have found and gave their locations.

10/16/02

Added an Essay on Confederate Railroad Finances.

10/17/02

Added an Essay and supporting pages showing the change in shipments of goods on the Virginia & Tennessee RR as the war progressed.

11/6/02

In References, identified the Annual Reports to States that I have found and give their locations.

11/16/02

Added the specifications for the South Carolina Railroad's 4x6x0 "James S. Corry"

11/20/02

Added a Track page to Macon & Western RR showing the length of each siding/turnout.

11/29/02

Added Freight Classifications to Essays

11/30/02

Added a Track page to East Tennessee & Virginia RR showing the length of each siding/turnout.

12/4/02

Added a Track page to Mobile & Ohio RR showing the length of each siding, the water towers, warehouses, platforms, and turn tables on the entire 400-mile line

12/8/02

Added a Track Sidings page to Virginia & Tennessee RR showing the length of each siding and the weight and type of rail used on each siding.

1/1/03

Added a listing of Memphis & Charleston RR Physical Assets from the 1861 Annual Report

1/2/03

Posted a map of Virginia railroads in 1859 (Va. RR 1859)

1/3/03

Listed the Water Tanks on the Virginia & Tennessee RR, with various details, and listed the Buildings owned by the railroad.

1/4/03

Listed Wood Sheds on the Virginia & Tennessee RR.

1/26/03

Listed the Slaves held by the South Carolina RR in 1861.

1/27/03

Listed Inventories of the storerooms and shops of the Petersburg RR, 1/1/1862

2/2/03

Listed slaves hired by North Carolina RR in 1862 and 1864

3/31/03

Listed Inventories of the South Side RR, 9/31/1861 & 1862 & 1863

4/1/03

Listed Macon & Western RR's Imports for 1863.

4/18/03

Added Shelby Iron Company Railroad to Alabama.

4/19/03

Added Shelby Coal Company Railroad to Alabama.

4/30/03

Added Montgomery & West Point Cars Details giving truck and spring information.

5/1/03

Inserted a page on the Richmond & Petersburg Slaves

5/9/03

Added a page in Essays on the Disruption of Normal Trade to Charleston

5/18/03

Entered data on 24 railroads from the Affairs of the Southern Railroads

5/24/03

Created a table of the number of Richmond & Danville Employees in each position for each year of the war. Added an essay on Employment Patterns at Various Confederate Railroads.

5/25/03

Described the track and Missionary Ridge tunnel of the East Tennessee & Georgia RR.
Added a table of Mobile & Ohio Rail Wear

5/26/03

Added Richmond & Petersburg Railroad Employees, Virginia & Tennessee Railroad Employees  and Virginia Central Railroad Employees tables showing occupations.

6/11/03

Added a table showing the Central (of Georgia) Articles & Passengers moved from 1861 through 1863.

6/12/03

Began recording Locomotive Usage tables.
Added table showing Charleston & Savannah Articles 1863

6/13/03

Added tables showing the complete set of bridges on the Memphis & Charleston

6/14/03

Added Macon & Brunswick Produce Transported 1863
Added Mobile & Great Northern Bridges
Added Muscogee Passengers & Cotton 1861
Added Montgomery & West Point Passengers 1861
Added Montgomery & West Point Cotton Shipments 1859 - 1862
6/15/03
Added Montgomery & West Point Bridges
Added Nashville & Chattanooga Passengers 1861
Added New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern Passengers 1861
6/17/03 Added Memphis & Charleston War Losses

6/18/03

Added map Virginia & Tennessee Railroad 1856
6/19/03
Added South Western Passengers & Cotton 1861
Added South Western Freight 1861
6/20/03
Added Seaboard & Roanoke Passengers & Freight 1861
Added Raleigh & Gaston Passengers & Freight 1861 & Passengers 1862
6/21/03
Added Northeastern Passengers 1862
Added Petersburg Passengers & Freight1861 & Passengers 1863
Added Vicksburg, Shreveport & Texas Passengers 1861
6/23/03
Added North Carolina Passengers 1861 - 1865
Added Macon & Western Freight 1860 - 1862
Added Macon & Western Passengers 1861, 1862, 1863
6/24/03
Added South Carolina Passengers 1861 - 1863
Added South Carolina Freight Shipments 1860 - 1863
Added Savannah, Albany & Gulf Road & Bridge Repairs
Added Savannah, Albany & Gulf Bridges 1861, 1862, 1863
6/25/03
Added Savannah, Albany & Gulf Passengers 1861 - 1863
Added Savannah, Albany & Gulf Freight 1861 - 1863
Added Essay Substituting Food for Cotton
6/26/03
Added Western & Atlantic Freight 1861 - 1862
Added Etowah Freight 1861 - 1862
Added Wilmington & Manchester Passengers 1861
Added Wilmington & Manchester Freight 1861
6/28/03
Added Western North Carolina Bridges & Water Tanks
Added Western North Carolina Imports
Added Richmond & York River Buildings
Added Richmond & York River Track Equipage
6/30/03 Added an essay on Supplies Brought Through the Blockade
7/2/03
Added an essay on Track Maintenance & Repair
Added a table in Essays, Locomotive Material Requirements
Added Tredegar Sales to Railroads
Added Tredegar Sales to Railroads 1864
7/3/03
Added Virginia Central Passengers 1861 - 1864
Added Virginia Central Freight at Richmond 1861 - 1862 and from Richmond 1861 - 1862 and Virginia Central Freight Movements 1861 - 1865
Added Virginia Central Mileage by Train Type 1861 - 1862
Added Virginia Central Tunnels
Added Virginia Central Imports
7/4/03
Added Richmond & Petersburg Passengers & Freight 1861 - 1863
Added Richmond & Petersburg Freight Details 1861 - 1863
Added Richmond & Petersburg Clover Hill Coal & Freight 1861 - 1863
Added Richmond & Petersburg Mileage by Train Type 1861 - 1863
Added Richmond & Danville Passengers 1861 - 1864
7/7/03 Alan Edwards shared his photo of the Mobile & Girard Railroad Seal
7/13/03 Added  Track Repair Requirements and Richmond & Danville Track Repair Material 1862, 1863, 1864
7/14/03 Added Freight Package Weights
7/15/03 Added map Richmond Area Railroads 1856
7/17/03
Added Atlanta & West Point Track
Added maps Louisiana and East Texas and Virginia Central (Western Section)
7/20/03
Added Wilmington & Weldon Passengers 1861 - 1865
Added Cost of Rolling Stock
Added Richmond & Danville Freight 1861 - 1862 & Richmond & Danville Confederate Freight 1862
7/23/03 Added Virginia & Tennessee Passengers 1860 - 1865, Virginia & Tennessee Freight 1860 - 1865 & Virginia & Tennessee Salt 1860 - 1865
8/4/03 Added the Pensacola & Mobile Railroad.
8/10/03 Created a Railroad List
8/16/03
Added Alabama & Florida (of Florida) Track Structures
Added Alabama & Florida (of Florida) "Contributions" to Other Roads
8/22/03 Began to transcribe CS Government documents relating to Railroad Issues
9/28/03 Began to transcribe railroad company documents relating to Railroad Issues
10/9/03
In the last 6 weeks, I've visited the Wilmington, NC Public Library, the Florida State Archives, the Georgia State Archives, the North Carolina State Library, and the Virginia Historical Society. Almost all the data I found in those locations has been entered, making major or minor changes to several dozen pages.
10/23/03 Wrote an essay on Slavery and Confederate Railroads
11/10/03 Added Louisville & Nashville Bridges & Track (sidings).
11/27/03 Added Gordon's Mine Railroad.
1/10/04
Finished transcribing the Railroad Bureau Archives from the Valentine Museum.
Added a sample of a Freight Way Bill
1/26/04 Created a table of the number of employees on the Texas & New Orleans Railroad in 1862
2/20/04 Compiled an alphabetical Index of Confederate Railroad Presidents
2/21/04 Compiled an alphabetical Index of Confederate Railroad Superintendents
3/6/04
This site now contains over 1300 pages!
I've completed transcribing 497 web pages of original documents, in chronological order.
3/18/04 Added Site Search to the left navigation bar.
3/26/04 Added transcriptions of two reports on the rolling stock condition of several Texas railroads in 1863. TX 9-12-63  TX 9-17-63
4/11/04
Added a sample of the hundreds of slave labor contracts made by the railroads NA, S&M 1-14-65.
Added Tredegar Railroad Contracts
4/16/04 Added a dozen pages, starting here, showing the resources at the Railroad Bureau's Raleigh, NC Locomotive Shop when it was shut down by the Confederate government.
6/5/04 Added a list of Significant Confederate Uses of the Railroads
6/26/04
Revised the Essays & Documents page to show the date of most recent update of each page.
Added a Tidbits page.
7/17/04 Added a page linking several examples of Annual Reports
8/12/04 Rewrote the Hungary Branch Railroad in view of information found in the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac RR records at the Library of Virginia.
8/13/04 Added Tredegar Sales to Individual Railroads, showing what was sold to each railroad in 1862.
12/27/04 Transcribed and posted the 1,000th document (Essays & Documents)
3/19/05 Essentially all of the railroad related letters and telegrams from the Quarter Master General's letter book have been posted. (Essays & Documents) The last one is from late January 1865.
4/3/05 Started posting Tredegar Purchases by Railroad.
4/23/05 Revised Captured Union Locomotives based on information provided by Karl Dahlberg.
5/27/05
Added Other Railroad Related Purchases From Tredegar
Thanks to Art Bergeron for information on the Red River RR of Louisiana
7/7/05 Added 24 transcriptions from the outgoing letter book of the Chief of the Engineer Bureau of the Confederate Army. Two significant ones are NA, ENG 9-16-62 and NA, ENG 4-11-62
8/12/05 Added Confederate Military Railroads
8/28/05 Added Mississippi & Tennessee Bridges, Buildings, and Trestles
9/8/05 Added Confederate Railroad Construction Plans
9/9/05 Added the statement of work for the locomotive J. R. Anderson to NA, PIW 1-12-64
11/18/05 Added two Biographies of Confederate Railroaders
11/19/05 Added major battles to the chronological lists of Original Documents to put railroad documents in context of the war.
11/20/05 Posted the 1,700th transcription.
12/9/05 Added Mississippi Central Buildings
12/31/05 Added Railroad Bureau Tredegar Purchases, Engineer Bureau Tredegar Purchases, Non-Railroad Tredegar Purchases.
1/1/06
Rewrote Tredegar Purchases by Railroad
Added Piedmont Railroad Blockade Running Plans
1/14/06
Added Ambulance cars to Confederate Rolling Stock
Began adding newspaper articles to the Confederate Railroad Documents at Essays & Documents
1/20/06 Added Femantle's Trip on Confederate Railroads
1/21/06 Added 33 Railroad Photographs
1/29/06 Added a page of Railroad accidents for each year of the war (Essays & Documents)
2/18/06
Updated all the pages related to purchases from Tredegar Iron Works.
Posted a list of Research Questions on Confederate Railroads.
3/11/06 Posted the 1900th transcription. The most recent group has been from the Engineer Bureau Letters Sent for early 1863 and 1865 newspaper reports relating to the arrest of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac RR's Superintendent on charges of giving information to the enemy. The charges were dropped at the time, but were true, according to Mr. Ruth's postwar claims to the Federal Government for services rendered.
4/21/06 Posted the 2,000th transcription.
6/30/06
Added Confederate Railroad Rails and Navy Armor
8/25/06 Added Northeast & Southwest Alabama RR Construction Effort to show how records were kept during construction. Added "Alabama" to the name of that railroad and added many officers.
8/27/06 Posted two lists of iron required to make flat cars. UA, A&TR 11-24-62 & UA, A&TR 9-24-64
8/31/06
Added Alabama & Tennessee River Railroad Shelby Purchases and Alabama & Mississippi Rivers Railroad Shelby Purchases
9/14/06 Began adding transcriptions from the Tredegar Iron Works outgoing letter books.
10/21/06
Added Alabama Coal RR and Montevallo Coal RR
11/19/06 Finished posting all the significant railroad-related letters from the Tredegar outgoing letter books. Unfortunately, all of 1863 is missing. 
11/24/06
Revised Captured Union Locomotives based on The Early Motive Power of the Baltimore & Ohio.
12/22/06 With the discovery of the Alabama Manual and Statistical Register for 1869 and a prospectus for the Mineral Lands of the Red Mountain Iron & Coal Company of Alabama (1868), I have removed the Cahaba Coal Railroad since the Cahaba Mine was at the end of the South & North Alabama RR. Also adjusted the length and stations on the South & North Alabama RR. Also updated the Shelby Coal Company RR, the Alabama Coal Company RR and Confederate Railroad Construction Plans.
1/1/07 Added Military Exemption Form
1/13/07 Added McGence Railroad
2/16/07
Added the Essay The Effort Required to Support Andersonville
3/4/07 Posted the 3,000th transcription.
3/13/07
Added About Me
3/15/07 Added Confederate Rolling Stock Inventory
4/5/07
Added Newspapers Reviewed in Detail to References
7/28/07
Posted the 3,600th transcription.
Added Allen's Plantation Railroad based on an article in the Richmond Dispatch.
8/3/07 Added 16 documents to the Georgia RR, including a request in the fall of 1863 for space on Government blockade runners for cotton to buy supplies.
8/10/07 Started a page listing the most recent transcriptions
9/13/07 Recent visits to Furman University (Greenville, S. C.) has produced several hundred newspaper postings from New Orleans and Mobile newspapers
9/14/07 Added Railroad Time
9/27/07 Added Mobile & Ohio Railroad Produce Deliveries to show the variety and amount of deliveries, by railroad, to meet the food needs of a city.
9/28/07 Added New Orleans Railroad Produce Deliveries.
12/31/07 Posted the 4,487th transcription -- that is almost 1,800 this year.
1/1/08 Added Express and Freight
1/6/08 Changed the McGence RR to the McGehee Railroad
1/20/08 After finding enough information on the West Feliciana RR to be sure that the McGehee Railroad was in fact the West Feliciana RR, I have removed the McGehee RR.
2/7/08 Added Cotton Through the Blockade
4/5/08 Added the little Galveston & Houston Junction Railroad
4/12/08 Added Wilmington Railroad Produce Deliveries
5/4/08 Added Atlanta Artillery Traffic
5/9/08 Just finished 17 hours at the National Archives. The last of the Engineer Bureau Letter Book was copied, 2 additional annual reports discovered, and a total of 325 documents copied for transcription.
5/11/08 Added Mississippi Central Railroad Inventories
5/25/08 Got another 13 hours at the National Archives this week. I've finished the Citizen's File research on all the railroads and have started the Letters Received by the Quartermaster General.
6/3/08 5,000th transcription posted! There are a few more than 6,000 pages on this site.
6/7/08 Posted the last transcription from the Engineer Bureau's outgoing letter book. Unfortunately, it is dated only 8/13/64, so 7 months of war are not covered, including the reconstruction after Sherman's march.
6/9/08 Added North Carolina Railroad Foundry Castings
8/17/08
Added a pair of photographs of a Western & Atlantic Railroad Badge. I'm assuming it is a Conductor's badge.
8/22/08 Added Non-Railroads
10/18/08 Added Memphis & Charleston Railroad Turntables and Memphis & Ohio Railroad Track Sidings
10/24/08
I have been unable to find anything to prove that there was an Augusta & Milledgeville RR by that name. It appears that this was a case of using the two connected towns as the name of the road when, in fact, the legal name was the Milledgeville Railroad. Therefore, I am removing the A&M from this site.
5,500th transcription posted.
11/14/08 Added Memphis & Charleston RR Ticket
11/30/08 Added Post-Raid Repairs
12/8/08
Added Mississippi & Tennessee RR Pass 1862
1/21/09
Since I started this site, I've added documents from the Official Records as I ran across them. Doing searches for the various names provided so many false hits that I could not use that method to look for new material. Last spring, I began to go almost page by page through the Confederate documents in the OR -- and I have finally finished that task. In the 130 volumes, I've found hundreds more documents.
1/22/09 Posted 12 Images of stocks and currency issued by Confederate railroads -- all provided by Pete Angelos.
2/19/09
Added Texas & New Orleans Railroad Bridges
Added Texas & New Orleans Railroad Track
Added Southern Pacific Railroad Cars
Added Memphis, El Paso & Pacific Railroad Cars
2/21/09 Added an expanded version of the West Point Map of Confederate Railroads
3/3/09 Added Western North Carolina Railroad Bridge Description
3/4/09 Added Locomotive Shop Cover to Images. The cover was found at webuystamps.com
4/30/09 Added Charleston & Savannah Railroad Savannah River Bridge
5/4/09
Added Confederate Railroads on Wikipedia
I was interviewed for three half-hour segments of the Charlotte, NC public access tv show "True American History" today. The first will show July 7th and the other two will follow after 2-week gaps. Howard White produces and hosts the show. 
5/8/09 Made many small changes to the railroads in northwest Louisiana/northeastern Texas from material provided by David Bland of the Red River Valley Railroad Historical Society
5/13/09 Began posting articles from the Vicksburg newspapers that have been found by Sam Price.
5/15/09 Posted the 6,000th transcription.
9/20/09 Added Pvt. Belue's Trips on Confederate Railroads
10/10/09 Added a Link concerning engineering practices in the construction of the Manassas Gap RR
11/12/09
Visited the Texas State Library and Archives. Copied 350 pages.
11/15/09
Added Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Employees
Added Houston & Texas Central Employees
Added Houston & Texas Central Buildings
Added Houston & Texas Central Track
11/19/09
Added Houston Tap & Brazoria Bridges
Added Houston Tap & Brazoria Employees
Added Houston Tap & Brazoria Track
11/24/09 Added Washington County Employees
11/25/09 Added San Antonio & Mexican Gulf Track
11/26/09
Added San Antonio & Mexican Gulf Buildings
Added Southern Pacific Track
12/9/09 Added my annotated transcription of the Diary of Thomas R. Sharp
12/24/09 Added Georgia Railroad Bridge
12/25/09 Added calendars for all war years 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865
12/28/09 Began posting the annual reports to the stockholders of the President, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of each Road. The first one is Presidents Report of the Alabama & Florida (of Alabama) 7-1-61
1/14/10 Added Savannah, Albany & Gulf Railroad Bridges 1863 Pt 2
2/10/10 I just complete a visit to the Auburn University Library and the Alabama State Archives. I'll be adding over 200 transcriptions from this trip. I have now visited the state archives for all the Confederate states.
2/21/10 Added a recent photograph of a culvert on the South & North Alabama RR, constructed during the War. They are much like those on the Louisville & Nashville RR of the same period.
2/25/10 Added 4 pieces of railroad currency to Images. They were provided by Bill Osborne, from the collection of Seymour Priestly.
4/27/10 Added Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad New Work for 1861
4/28/10 Added Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Inventories, showing EVERYTHING a well-appointed supply department contained -- both 1861 and 1862
6/6/10 Added Footnote.com to References. This is THE way to research the National Archives Citizens Files and Service Records.
6/25/10 Added the St. Johns Railroad
7/22/10
Added another sample to Freight Way Bills.
Added Soldier's Ticket
8/8/10 Added Captured Memphis & Charleston RR Locomotives. Thanks to Brian Hogan for providing the documents.
8/10/10 Added An Article of Tribute to Major Thomas Peters. Thanks to David Wake.
8/31/10
Posted images of several pieces of Mobile & Ohio RR currency.
Also, an image of the Locomotive William Jones Jr. Thanks to Stephen Ellison for the material.
9/2/10 Added a sample of a Richmond & Danville RR Freight Receipt
9/27/10 Added a Link to Bill Lockridge's Selma Research Project.
10/21/10 Added Robert Black Obituary
10/23/10 Provided proof of the Stonewall Jackson seizure and removal of Baltimore & Ohio RR locomotives and rolling stock at Jackson and the Locomotive Haul
12/11/10 Added several photographs of items from the Jim Hinson collection in Images
12/12/10
Added Jackson and the Earlier Locomotive Haul
Added Jackson and the Locomotive Haul -- Whose Idea?
12/30/10 Added Confederate Rolling Stock Production
1/22/11 Added The Merrimac and the Railroad about the Wilmington & Manchester RR's blockade-runner
3/24/11 Added a photo of Capt. Thomas R. Sharp here
3/29/11 Posted an 1898 article on Jackson's Locomotive Haul with my extensive annotations. I posted this because this article is used as the basis for much of what is being written now about the operation.
4/25/11 Added Centreville RR Map and Map of the area involved in the Jackson/Sharp locomotive haul
6/2/11 Added Did Sharp Build the Centreville Railroad?
6/27/11 Added Images of 2 pieces of Western & Atlantic currency, provided by David Wake
6/28/11 Added Late War Shipping
7/26/11 Based on information provided by Gordon Mitchell, a Gordon descendent, I've changed the name of Gordon's Mine RR to Nicojack RR
7/27/11 Added Image of a Raleigh & Gaston stock certificate, provided by Jeff Dickens
12/29/11 Added Richmond & Danville Bridge Guards
3/7/12 Added the Columbus Tap Railroad
4/24/12 Began adding transcriptions from the Clarksville Jeffersonian. Added an image of a Memphis & Ohio RR 50 cent bill here. Added a quote from Dabney's biography of Jackson as one more proof of the locomotive haul here.
4/25/12 Add a map of Memphis, showing the roads the Confederacy built to connect the three roads. Thanks to Tom Parker for identifying these additions. (www.memphisrails.com)
5/12/12
Added an essay on Jefferson Davis' Escape Locomotive  
Added Atlantic & North Carolina RR Employees
Added Atlantic & North Carolina RR Inventory
5/16/12 Added Railroad Transportation of Commissary Stores
5/27/12 Since there are now many Union newspapers available on-line, I added Union Confederate Railroads Original Documents
6/8/12 Over 9,000 Confederate documents transcribed and posted as of today.
7/13/12 Finally got to use the Baltimore & Ohio RR archives (available Fridays only). Found only a little of use; all the significant documents relating to Jackson and Sharp and their work are missing.
8/26/12
Added Significant Events in the Life of the Confederate Railroads
Added Macon & Western Railroad Shops
10/16/12 Added Piedmont Railroad Construction Materials
11/12/12
Added Houston & Texas Central Railroad Shops
12/16/12 Added Brunswick & Florida Railroad Cars
1/19/13 Added Sabotage and Loss of a Railroad's Steamboat
3/27/13 Added South Carolina Locomotives Lost in 1865 and South Carolina Cars Lost in 1865
4/22/13 Added Major Mason Morfit's uniform to his Biography
6/8/13
Added Map of Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac RR from Fredericksburg to Acquia wharf
Added a photo of the Richmond & Danville RR roundhouse {here}
6/9/13 Added a photograph of a trestle on the South Side RR  {here}
7/28/13 Added Atlanta Armor Shipping Impact
8/2/13 Added C. S. S. Virginia Armor Shipping Impact
8/20/13 Added City and Area Maps of Confederate Railroads and links to maps for many individual railroads from their home page (on the Black's Number line)
11/18/13 Added Blue Ridge (of Virginia) Railroad Tunnel Today. Photo provided by A. P. Grice IV.
11/19/13 Added Virginia Central Railroad Culvert Today. Photo provided by A. P. Grice IV.
12/1/13 Spent 4 days at the National Archives over the last two weeks. There is still a tremendous amount to review there. One of the results of these visits has been a large burst of transcriptions -- taking me over the 10,000-transcription mark.
12/13/13 Added Railroad Exemptions in Virginia 1864
12/28/13 Added Rules for Auditing Railroad Accounts
1/11/14 Added a photo of the Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire RR's Alexandria depot here
2/21/14
Added Sample Raleigh Shipments
4/19/14 Added photograph of Cass Station on Western & Atlantic RR
4/21/14 Added sketch of Kingston, Ga. from an 1864 Harper's Weekly
5/27/14 Added a photo of Appomattox Station here
5/29/14 Added a photo of models of the three locomotives used in the Great Locomotive Chase here.
6/20/14 Added a map of the Western & Atlantic RR from Marietta to Kingston, prepared by the Road after the war here
9/15/14 Replaced Virginia & Tennessee RR Buildings of 1860 with Buildings 1862
11/23/14 Posted the 11,000th Confederate railroad document transcription
11/29/14 Added Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac RR Journal Transactions
1/13/15
Added a table of known Confederate Railroad Bureau Telegrams
2/15/15 Added photographs of T-Rail and CSS Georgia Armor
2/19/15 Thanks to Glenn Robertson for providing the Huntington Library holdings of Sims' September 1863 telegrams. The first one is posted H, RRB 9-5-1863.
2/24/15 Added a sketch of a Western & Atlantic RR Water Tank
4/4/15 Added the North Western Railroad of Alabama
6/8/15 Added Richmond & Danville & Piedmont Railroad Telegraph Form
7/14/15 Posted 12,000th Confederate railroad document transcription
8/29/15 After 5 1/2 years, I've finally posted the President's and Superintendent's reports for every annual report that I have. The last was the Wilmington & Weldon RR
8/30/15 Added Mississippi, Ouachita & Red River Stock 1864 and a transcription of a receipt on the back here.
10/11/15 Added Mobile Iron Wharfage
11/18/15 Added photo of a Richmond & Danville RR Baggage Tag and thanks to Bob McCown for spotting it.
1/1/16 Starting the new year with over 12,500 transcribed Confederate documents. Now that Confederate ledger books can be downloaded from the National Archives, I will have several thousand more documents up this year.
7/17/16 Added maps Galveston 1862
8/8/16 Added Savannah, Albany & Gulf 7pct Stock 1861. Thanks to Pete Angelos.
8/8/16 Added Map of Alabama & Mississippi Rivers RR at Demopolis. Thanks to Richard McCardle.
1/1/17 Started the year with 14,354 Confederate RR Documents posted; total of 16,267 total web pages on the site.
3/1/17 Published "Locomotives Up the Turnpike" re: Sharp, the Haul and this War career ***** HERE *****
4/8/17 Added Food Shipments to Portsmouth
4/9/17 Added Major Smith's Commissary Reports
9/4/17 Added Memphis & Charleston Railroad Machine Shop Production
11/14/17 Added Outfitting A New Railroad
11/15/17 Added status reports for the construction of the Northeast & Southwest Alabama Railroad
12/31/17 Ended the year with 16,500 transcriptions and about 19,000 total pages on the site.
1/17/18 Added map of the Memphis & Charleston RR shops and depots at Huntsville, Ala. 1861 and a photo of the Huntsville Passenger Depot here
1/23/18 Added a photo of Northeast & Southwest Alabama RR Track by Richard McCardle.
2/3/18 Added Confederate Transportation Agents
5/13/18 Posted ten transcriptions of John M. Robinson letters found at William & Mary University
6/8/18
Added Central Southern RR Track
Added Central Southern RR Bridges & Tunnel
6/25/18 Added page on Confederate Railroad Conventions
11/16/18 Added a description of the Blue Ridge Railroad Route
11/21/18 Added a Union spy's report on deep South RRs in 1863 here
12/9/18 Added New Orleans, Opelousas & Great Western Railroad Bridges
12/14/18 Thanks to Richard Stone for locating several useful Union Official Records
1/1/19 Started the year with 18,084 Confederate document transcriptions and a total of 20,065 total web pages
2/12/19 Added The Four Railroad Zones
5/17/19
Added Memphis & Ohio RR Employees
6/4/19 Added Northeast & Southwest Alabama Railroad Bridges
9/21/19 Added Washington County RR Bridge Description
10/24/19 Posted Richmond Grain Receipts and Shipments May - July, 1863
11/9/19
Added Fodder Provided Piedmont RR
12/20/19 Added 2 photos of car lead seal, from Tim Barden, and 6 photos of company locks and tickets, from Ron Wise.
12/31/19 Ended the year with 19,291 transcriptions of period Confederate documents. The site has 21,321 web pages.
2/14/20 Added photo of South Side RR shops and office, 1865, Shops 1
3/8/20 Added Transporting Artillery on Trains
3/30/20 Added map to NA, ENG 4-11A-63
4/11/20 Added specifications for captured B&O locomotives 33, 34, 76 & 83, 50, 126, 188, 231 &235, 199 & 204, 208, 225 & 226
4/30/20 Added North Carolina Railroad Shops
5/3/20 Added Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad Track
6/27/20 Added Government Telegraph Form
7/26/20 Added fare listings from Columbia, S. C. to Statesville, N. C. UNC, C&SC 5-1-63
11/21/20 Added a record of all the rail removals that I can document at Confederate Rail Removals
11/28/20 Posted Essay Requirements to Run A Railroad
12/31/20 Ended the year with 19,942 Confederate document transcriptions and 22,019 web pages.
1/18/21 Added Transportation Invoice
1/20/21 Completed an audit of the number of Confederate RR documents transcribed and posted and found the number to be 20,264, with an additional 87 Union documents. This means an average of 1,066 Confederate documents posted per year for the last 19 years. (Plus RR Data, Essays, Maps and Images)
1/23/21 Compiled and posted Fodder Shipments for One Month
2/10/21 Added edited and annotated copy of Sagle's Salvage Hunt Through Dixie, recounting the post-war recovery of the B&O RR rolling stock and machinery hauled south by Sharp   MISC, RRB xx-xx-1975
2/17/21 Posted CSN Coal Shipments regarding the mid-1863 movements from Chattanooga
2/20/21 Added Richmond & Danville Tables:
Coal Tonnage FY1861
Coal Tonnage FY1862,
Locomotive M&R FY1861
Locomotive M&R FY1862
Locomotive M&R FY1863
Locomotive M&R FY1864
Car M&R FY1861
Car M&R FY1862,
Car M&R FY1863
Car M&R FY1864
2/28/21 Added Virginia & Tennessee Tables:
Wood (contracts, usage, on-hand)
Lynchburg Traffic
Buildings Recapitulation
Turn Tables
3/2/21 Added Virginia & Tennessee Tables:
Shipments by Classification and Year
Tonnage Received by Depot
3/7/21 Wrote and posted The Construction of the Piedmont Railroad
3/30/21 Added table Confederate Rails and Rolling Stock
4/4/21 Wrote and posted The Construction of the Selma & Meridian Railroad
4/7/21 Wrote and posted The Construction of the Blue Mountain Railroad
4/8/21 Wrote and posted The Construction of the Montgomery & Columbus Railroad
4/11/21 Wrote and posted The Construction of the Columbia & Augusta Railroad
4/13/21 Wrote and posted The Construction of the Chatham Railroad
4/15/21
Wrote and posted The Construction of the Lawton & Live Oak Railroad
Wrote and posted The Construction of the Western Railroad of Alabama
4/17/21 Wrote and posted The Construction of Other Confederate Railroads
5/15/21 Wrote and posted Closing City Rail Gaps
6/10/21 Created and posted Tredegar Locomotives Produced
6/25/21 Posted 2 maps and 3 photos, courtesy of C&O Historical Society (cohs.org and chessieshop.com) in Images
7/22/21 Created a list of links to the Confederate Railroad Laws
8/7/21 Posted In Relation to the Iron Business in Alabama
8/8/21 Added photos Bridge 19, Bridge 20, Bridge 21, Locomotive 5
9/14/21 Added a photo of Major John D. Whitford and a photo of the Raleigh & Gaston RR Company Offices
9/17/21 Added Locomotive Haul Drawing
9/23/21 Added 10 maps from the National Archives to Confederate Railroad Maps
10/5/21 Added Seaboard & Roanoke RR Weldon depot (second story is post war)
10/9/21 Added photo of a Commissary supply depot
10/18/21 Posted a pair of photos of the Petersburg RR Shops
12/31/21 Ended the year with 20,497 Confederate document transcriptions and 22,413 web pages
2/12/22 Added East Tennessee photos by Noah McMillan East Tennessee & Georgia Railroad Depot and East Tennessee & Virginia Railroad Culvert
2/23/22 Added South Carolina Railroad Stations Details
2/24/22 20th Birthday of the site!! 22,545 pages
7/1/22 Began transcribing some 500 pages of Capt. L. P. Grant's mostly outgoing letter files
8/26/22 Posted the 21,000th Confederate transcription
10/23/22 Added Biography of L. P. Grant
11/19/22 Added Biography of John H. Averill
11/20/22 Added Biography of John Kleckley
12/15/22 Added Elements of a New Railroad
12/31/22 Ended the year with 21,410 Confederate document transcriptions and 23,321 pages
3/5/23
Added 8 images of Texas counties' currency with RR designs
Posted Virginia Central Railroad Freight Related to Sharp & B&O 1861 - 1862
3/17/23 Added a Tidbits
8/6/23 Added Richmond, Fredericksburg &Potomac RR Employees (Employment Patterns at Various Confederate Railroads)
8/26/23 Added Biography of Charles Maurice Smith
1/1/24 Ended the year with 21,871 Confederate document transcription and 23,795 pages
1/9/24 Added Alexandria & Washington Railroad
2/17/24 Added Agent Obtaining Coal in Chattanooga

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