How Sherman's boys fixed the railroad

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882 · October 1863

From "War Memories" catalog: On the "march to the sea" Sherman's army burned the bridges and destroyed the railroads as they went. This view gives a scene of the destruction of the W. & A.R.R. The rails are first torn up, then the wooden ties are pried out and piled in heaps and burned; the iron rails are laid across the burning ties, and soon get hot enough in the middle so that the weight of the ends bend the rail up as here shown. Of course when they get cold they are simply good as "old iron."