RAILROAD in Classic Quotes

1  Then the railroad building era really began.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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2  Born of a railroad, Atlanta grew as its railroads grew.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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3  And they hadn't lost the railroad at their back, either.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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4  From the same junction point, the young Atlanta, a fourth railroad was constructed southwestward to Montgomery and Mobile.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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5  From the old city of Augusta, a second railroad was extended westward across the state to connect with the new road to Tennessee.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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6  He touched up the mare with the whip and she trotted briskly across Five Points and across the railroad tracks that cut the town in two.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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7  And the stores and warehouses along the railroad track near the depot, which were part of her inheritance, had tripled in value since the war began.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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8  Sherman inexorably advanced, step by step, swinging his army about them in a wide curve, forcing another retreat to defend the railroad at their back.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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9  The whole hospital must have turned out, at least everybody who could walk, and all the men on furlough and sick leave and all the railroad and mail service and hospital and commissary departments between here and Macon.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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10  Again the gray lines were summoned swiftly from their red ditches to defend the railroad, and, weary for sleep, exhausted from marching and fighting, and hungry, always hungry, they made another rapid march down the valley.

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11  They had ambitious plans to cut the vitally important railroad between Atlanta and Tennessee and then swing southward into Atlanta to destroy the factories and the war supplies concentrated there in that key city of the Confederacy.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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12  There were many other men, stumping on wooden pegs, blind in one eye, fingers blown away, one arm gone, who were quietly transferring from the commissariat, hospital duties, mail and railroad service back to their old fighting units.

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13  From the old city of Savannah, a third railroad was built first to Macon, in the heart of Georgia, and then north through Gerald's own county to Atlanta, to link up with the other two roads and give Savannah's harbor a highway to the West.

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14  They could not break the gray lines by direct assault and so, under cover of night, they marched through the mountain passes in a semicircle, hoping to come upon Johnston's rear and cut the railroad behind him at Resaca, fifteen miles below Dalton.

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15  Johnston fought desperately at Resaca and repulsed the Yankees again, but Sherman, employing the same flanking movement, swung his vast army in another semicircle, crossed the Oostanaula River and again struck at the railroad in the Confederate rear.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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16  The destination of the proposed railroad, Tennessee and the West, was clear and definite, but its beginning point in Georgia was somewhat uncertain until, a year later, an engineer drove a stake in the red clay to mark the southern end of the line, and Atlanta, born Terminus, had begun.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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17  To make matters worse, there was only one railroad line from Wilmington to Richmond and, while thousands of barrels of flour and boxes of bacon spoiled and rotted in wayside stations for want of transportation, speculators with wines, taffetas and coffee to sell seemed always able to get their goods to Richmond two days after they were landed at Wilmington.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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