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Book Review

Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat. By John E. Clark Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. xviii, 275 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8071-2726-4.)

This book has two main points to argue. First, railroads played a crucial role in the war. Second, the South lost the war in large part because it was unable to find skilled managers to run it. Few would dispute the importance of railroads in the war, but many will question John E. Clark Jr.'s provocative assessment of why the South lost. The book is not intended to be a full account of the ways railroads were used throughout the war, so readers looking for analysis of the railroads from the battle of Bull Run to Petersburg will not find it here. . . .

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