Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society

• Maps
• Chapter
• Johns Hopkins University Press
• pp. xiv-xx
• View Citation
• Additional Information

Map Key

1. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

2. Winchester and Potomac Railroad

3. Orange and Alexandria Railroad

4. Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad

5. Virginia Central Railroad

6. City Point Railroad

7. Petersburg Railroad

8. Richmond and Danville Railroad

9. Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad

10. Virginia and Tennessee Railroad

11. Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad

12. Southside Railroad

13. Raleigh and Gaston Railroad

14. Wilmington and Raleigh/Wilmington and Weldon Railroad

15. North Carolina Railroad

16. Western North Carolina Railroad

17. South Carolina Railroad

18. Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad

19. Wilmington and Manchester Railroad

20. Greenville and Columbia Railroad

21. Blue Ridge Railroad

22. Spartanburg and Union Railroad

23. Lexington and Ohio Railroad

24. Louisville and Nashville Railroad

25. East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad

26. East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad

27. Georgia Railroad

28. Central Railroad of Georgia

29. Macon and Western Railroad

30. Western and Atlantic Railroad

31. Southwestern Railroad

32. Tallahassee Railroad

33. Saint Joseph and Iola Railroad

34. Montgomery and West Point Railroad

35. Tuscumbia, Courtland and Decatur Railroad

36. Memphis and Charleston Railroad

37. Southern Railroad

38. Raymond Railroad

39. Mobile and Ohio Railroad

40. Mississippi Central Railroad

41. Grand Gulf and Port Gibson Railroad

42. Natchez and Jackson Railroad

43. West Feliciana Railroad

44. Clinton and Port Hudson Railroad

45. Pontchartrain Railroad

46. Mexican Gulf Railroad

47. Baton Rogue, Grosse Tete and Opelousas Railroad

48. New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad

Map 1. Early developments: Railroads in the South, 1840.

Map 2. Railroads in the South, 1850 (selected railroads identified).

Map 3. Railroads at the start of the Civil War, 1861 (selected railroads identified).