"Biscuit Run" Topic
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Tango01  | 06 May 2013 9:37 p.m. PST |
Good job in progress here. "It is the summer of 1864. Sherman is fighting south of Chattanooga toward Atlanta, but Atlanta hasn't fallen. This is a freelanced line that went west-south-west from Nashville to Bentonville (a fictional town), a small steamship port on the Tennessee River. The town had started the line but had not finished it by the start of the war. The USMRR completed the line in 1863 to act as a back-up route to supply Nashville. They named the port McCook's Landing in honor of Brigadier General Robert Latimer McCook, who died in 1862, allegedly shot by rebel guerrillas while he lay wounded in an ambulance (though the story is disputed by Confederates). The town had a small shipyard and various other structures before the war. It was not burned by the either side, except for the railroad bridge and some farms of suspected guerrillas along the river. The USMRR rebuilt the bridge with a standard design, expanded the wharves and warehouses, and added earthworks with artillery…"
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usmrr.blogspot.com.ar Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
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| Painter Jim | 07 May 2013 8:42 a.m. PST |
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