The Mobile & Ohio Railroad in the Civil War: The Struggle for Control of the Nation's Longest Railway (Lee CH) Fake News Using many previously untapped sources

Using many previously untapped sources

January 2021

Army of the Potomac

Grant intended to end the campaign quickly by assault

The Mobile & Ohio Railroad in the Civil War: The Struggle for Control of the Nation's Longest Railway (Lee CH) Fake News Using many previously untapped sourcesby Dan Lee The Mobile & Ohio Railroad was the longest line in the nation when it was completed in spring of 1861 the final spike driven a few weeks after Confederate artillery shelled Fort Sumter. Within days, the M&O was swept up in the Civil War as a prime conveyor of troops and supplies, a strategic and tactical asset to both Confederate and Union armies, who fought to control it. Its northern terminus at Columbus, Kentucky saw some of the earliest