Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. From Amsterdam through Belgium and Great Britain to New York: April–May 1866
2. In New York City and Westward to Chicago: May 1866
3. From Chicago through Illinois and Northward to Minnesota: May–June 1866
4. In Chicago and by way of Cincinnati and Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia: June–July 1866
5. New York City, Albany, Niagara Falls, Pennsylvania Oil, and Canada: July–August 1866
6. In Boston and New England: August–September 1866
7. In New York City, New Jersey, and Troy, New York: September–October 1866
8. In Boston, Providence, Albany, and back to New York City: October–December 1866
9. In the South: Charleston and Savannah: December 1866
10. In Georgia and Virginia: December 1866
11. To Baltimore and Washington, D.C.: December 1866–January 1867
12. In New York City: January 1867
13. In New York City and Boston and Salem, Massachusetts: January–February 1867

Notes
Index

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About the Author

Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr. is author of Spoorwegen in Nederland [Railways in the Netherlands].

H. Roger Grant is Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of History at Clemson University. He is author of 24 books, including Visionary Railroader: Jervis Langdon Jr. and the Transportation Revolution (IUP, 2008).

Reviews

"An important look inside a turbulent period in American history." James A. Ward, Guerry Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga