The Mobile & Ohio Railroad in the Civil War

<p> The Mobile & Ohio Railroad was the longest line in the nation when it was completed in spring of 1861--the final spike driven a few weeks after Confederate artillery shelled Fort Sumter. Within days, the M&O was swept up in the Civil War as a prime conveyor of troops and supplies, a strategic and tactical asset to both Confederate and Union armies, who fought to control it.</p><p> Its northern terminus at Columbus, Kentucky saw some of the earliest fighting in the w