. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . road buildings in the city, sent back his surjilusstores and all the railroad machinery that had been accumu-lated by his army, and, as far as possible, left the countryl)arren to the Confederates. The stores and railroad stockwere safely withdrawn to Xashville, and after tlie dispersionof Hoods army the construction corps again took the field,reconstructed the road to Chattanooga, then to Atlanta, andlater extended it to Decatur, ]Macon, and Augusta. At one time, just jirior to the close of the war, there were1,769 miles of milita
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . road buildings in the city, sent back his surjilusstores and all the railroad machinery that had been accumu-lated by his army, and, as far as possible, left the countryl)arren to the Confederates. The stores and railroad stockwere safely withdrawn to Xashville, and after tlie dispersionof Hoods army the construction corps again took the field,reconstructed the road to Chattanooga, then to Atlanta, andlater extended it to Decatur, ]Macon, and Augusta. At one time, just jirior to the close of the war, there were1,769 miles of military railroads under the direction of Gen-eral ]McCallum, general manager of the military railroads ofthe United States. These roads required about three hun-dred and sixty-five engines and forty-two hundred cars. InAjjril, 1865, over twenty-three tliousand five hundred menwere employed. The results of the -s^-ork of the corjjs wererecognized throughout the world as remarkable triumphs ofmilitary and engineering skill, highly creditable to the officersand XITI THE DEFENSE OF RICHMOND
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