Southwest Virginia's Railroad - Modernization and the Sectional Crisis in the Civil War Era

Informationen zum Autor Kenneth W. Noe is the Draughon Professor of Southern History at Auburn University and author of The Civil War in Appalachia. Klappentext This book examines the construction of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad through southwest Virginia in the 1850s, before the Civil War began. The building and operation of the railroad reoriented the economy of the region toward staple crops and slave labor. Thus, during the secession crisis, southwest Virginia broke with northwestern Virginia and embraced the Confederacy. Ironically, however, it was the railroad that brought waves of Union raiders to the area during the war. Zusammenfassung This work examines the construction of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad through southwest Virginia in the 1850s! before the Civil War began. The building and operation of the railroad reoriented the economy of the region toward staple crops and slave labour.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth W Noe, Kenneth W. Noe
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2003
• EAN: 9780817350642
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5064-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Rail vehicles; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous