A Collection of Civil War Manuscript Documents, Related to Troops and Supplies Transportation

Various: By the authors, 1861. Very good. Five documents, 1861 - 1862, three in manuscript, two printed and filled in manuscript; various sizes; generally in very good or better condition - two with small ncks and cuts to edges, one with a discreet repair to verso.The Civil War would be one of the first wars, in which large-scale railroad transportation was used to move and supply armies rapidly over long distances. Various documents and orders were used to record the movements, including military orders, written by commanders and then conveyed to railroad companies, freight and passenger receipts, in which railroad companies used their standard paperwork to record military transports, and so on. The current group of papers, signed by various army commanders and railroad officials, represented such records of transportation of soldiers, horses, servants, equipment, and baggage on the Hartford nad New Haven and the Springfield railroads.