Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Next to Richmond, in the East, and Vicksburg, in the West, Chattanooga, the stronghold which guarded the Confederate centre, was the most important strategic point, toward which the Union armies were struggling. With its strong natural defences, and its importance as a railroad centre, Chattanooga not only protected the heart of the South from Federal invasion, but it also opened up for the rebels an easy path into Tennessee and Kentucky...
Buell was sent east with 40,000 men, but was compelled to guard two hundred miles of railroad, and Bragg, who had succeeded Beauregard, anticipated Buell by a swift move, took Chattanooga and assumed the offensive...
...advance upon Corinth, which, by its position as a railroad centre, was a vital point in the line to which Johnston bad retreated, Grant took up a position at Pittsburg Landing, on the Tennessee. Here he awaited the arrival of Buell with strong re-enforcements. The position was easy to defend, and favored further advance. Johnson saw the opportunity and tried to surprise Grant on April 5. But he arrived late at night and had to wait till morning. At day-break he made a furious attack, massing 40,000 men on the Union left, the only exposed point. Again...
...June 22, 1893); LX, 102 (Feb. 7, 1895); A. R. Foote, Municipal Ownership of Quasi-Public Works; John Stuart Mill, Political Economy, Book V, ch. 11, 1-6; Bastable, Public Finance, 184 ff; Bryce, American Commonwealth, II, 367-385 (on Philadelphia Gas Ring); A. C. Burrage, Municipal Lighting; Hadley, Railroad Transportation...
...University Railway Advertising company has placed a case of railroad time tables in the CRIMSON office for the convenience of students. Any student desiring a time table of any railroad may get one at the CRIMSON office...