The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road: Dreams of Linking North and South

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183 Page number in italics indicate presence of an illustration A. Birdsall and Company, 126 Abbeville (locomotive), 112 Abbeville, South Carolina, 111 Abington, Virginia, 45, 48 Abington Rail Road, 46 Adams, Henry, 1 Address in Behalf of the Knoxville Convention, to the Citizens of the Several States Interested in the Proposed Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Rail Road (pamphlet), 66–67 Adrian, Michigan, 90 Alabama Great Southern Railway, 149–50 Alabama River, 10 Albany, New York, 108 Allegheny Portage Rail Road, 60 Allen, Horatio, 29, 33–34, 37–38, 47 Almond, North Carolina, 134, 136 Alpine, Texas, 120 Alston, South Carolina, 114–15 Altamaha River, 10 Alton, Illinois, 161 Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), 136 American Society of Civil Engineers, 25 Anderson, Rev. Isaac, 64–65 Anderson, South Carolina, 111–12, 121–24, 127, 132, 136 Anderson Railroad Convention, 122–23 Andrews, Alexander Boyd, 135 Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century (book), The, 52 Anson Bangs and Company, 125–26 Anti-Masonic Party, 44 Apalachicola River, 10 Asheville, North Carolina, 8, 46, 53, 63, 69, 75, 102–103, 112, 133–34, 155, 160 Asheville & Spartanburg Railroad, 134 Ashley River, 31, 117, 156 Athens, Georgia, 8, 46, 62, 70, 80, 84, 90, 125, 133 Athens, Ohio, 2 Athens, Tennessee, 126 Atlanta, Georgia, 84–85, 94, 134, 156–57 Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line Railroad, 133 Atlantic & Mississippi Rail Road, 170n6 Atlas (steamboat), 13 Audubon, John James, 15 Augusta, Georgia, 6, 10, 31, 41, 46, 62, 83–84, 90, 94, 107, 123, 137 Augusta & Eastern Rail Road, 46 Bache, Herman, 80 Baldwin, Mathias, 37–38 Baltimore, Maryland, 7, 30–33, 63, 87, 97, 137, 151, 156, 159 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 30–31, 33, 35–36, 60, 63, 72, 85, 87, 96, 97, 137 Baltimore & Susquehanna Rail Road, 73, 88 Bangs, Austin, 126 Bangs, Eli, 126 Bank of England, 101 Barbour, James, 71 Battle of Bunker Hill, 24 Beacon Hill Railroad, 24–25 Beard, Charles A., 164 Beard, Mary R., 164 Beaufort, North Carolina, 31, 45 Belle (steamboat), 16 Belton, South Carolina, 111, 132 Best Friend of Charleston (locomotive), 35–37, 36, 38, 39 Bierce, Lucius Verus, 2 Bill Creek (Tennessee), 76 Birmingham, Alabama, 146, 156 Black, Alexander, 30 Blanding, Abram, 56, 58, 60, 104, 160 Block House, Virginia, 8 Blue Ridge (locomotive), 131 Blue Ridge & Atlantic Railroad, 133 Blue Ridge Railroad, 120; Anderson Railroad Convention, 122–23; Advantages of, 121–24, 129–30; Construction, 126–28, 130; Contractors, 125–26; Corporate components, 121–22, 124; Financing and financials, 124–29; Freight and passenger service, 131–32, 179n34; Narrowgauge proposal, 132; Opposition to, 124–25, 128; Post–Civil War lines (non-Blue Ridge Railroad), 134–36; Post–Civil War revival efforts, 131–33; Routes and surveys, 122–23, 125; Southwestern branch proposal, Index • I n d e x 184 126; Stump House Mountain Tunnel, 125, 127–29, 128, 130; Tunnels, 122–23, 125, 127 Blue Ridge Railroad [of Georgia], 121 Boone, Daniel, 8 Boonesborough, Kentucky, 8 Boston, Massachusetts, 24, 32–33, 108, 137, 152, 156, 158–59, 162 Boston & Providence Rail Road, 73 Branchville, South Carolina, 53, 95–96, 98–99, 106, 118, 121 Brisbane, Abbot, 73 Bristol, Virginia, 114, 134 Broad River, 19, 114 Brown, William Spence, 111 Brunswick, Georgia, 31, 153 Buchanan, James, 73–74 Buchanan, Virginia, 18 Buffalo Trace (Indiana), 2 Buncombe Turnpike, 75–76 Burnside, Ambrose, 138 Bushnell, North Carolina, 135 Butt Mountain Gap (North Carolina), 60, 75–76 Calderwood, Tennessee, 135–36 Caldwell, Joseph, 45 Calhoun, John C., 15, 51, 58, 62, 71–72, 78–85, 79, 90, 104, 106, 111, 121, 157, 163, 171n29 Cambridge City, Indiana, 18 Camden, South Carolina, 16, 28, 31, 34, 47, 98–99, 116 Canals: Advantages of, 19–21; Scope, 17–19; Technology, 16, 19; Weaknesses and disadvantages of, 20–21 Cannon, Gabriel, 114 Canton, Massachusetts, 73 Canton, Mississippi, 102 Carbondale, Pennsylvania, 29 Carey, Henry Charles, 164 Carolina & Tennessee Southern Railway, 134 Carolina Gap (North Carolina), 80–82 Carroll, Charles, 97 Carrollton Viaduct, Maryland, 30 Carts, 5 Catawba River, 47 Central Rail Road & Canal Company of Georgia, 62, 83 Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, 67 Charleston, South Carolina, 7, 16, 18, 30–35, 40–41, 47–49, 51, 53– 56, 61, 69, 81, 83–88, 91, 94–95, 98–99, 102–104, 107, 109–10, 113– 14, 116–17, 119, 121–25, 127, 130, 134, 136–37, 139, 150–60, 162–64 Charleston & Savannah Railroad, 117 Charleston Chamber of Commerce, 30–32, 54 Charlotte, North Carolina, 116–17, 156 Charlotte & South Carolina Rail Road, 110, 116...