One more addition to American railroad history, in the same journal issue as the previous item, and the pendant to it: The Confederate Government and the Railroads, April, 1861. The South had less to start with, and the more libertarian and states’ rights approach by the central government made matters worse; it didn’t stand a chance.
The paper, by the way, is by Charles Ramsdell, who by the time of his death would become the dean of Southern historians.
American History 