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

"An outstanding work on an important element of American railroad history." —The Civil War Monitor

Among the grand antebellum plans to build railroads to interconnect the vast American republic, perhaps none was more ambitious than the Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston. The route was intended to link the cotton-producing South and the grain and livestock growers of the Old Northwest with traders and markets in the East, creating economic opportunities along its 700-mile length. But then ca...