[henkster]

The south generally lacked strategic east-west railroads suficient to shift forces and war materiel between theaters. The only time they really did was the loan of Longstreet’s Corps to the west for Chickamauga. The north, on the other hand could shift resources at will.

I’d also like to see a railroad map for 1865.

[EternalVigilance]

1861

1865

1870

1890

Sorry that the 1865 map is so small. It's all I could find so far.

[BroJoeK]

henkster: "The south generally lacked strategic east-west railroads suficient to shift forces and war materiel between theaters."

Especially as the war dragged on, year after year, with the Confederacy's lack of industrial capacity to produce more rail, engines & other equipment, to make up for both war losses and normal wear & tear.

But I suspect the real problem, from the beginning, was a lack of strategic vision of how to use their interior lines to move men & materials from one battle-front to another.
It's one of those great Civil War "what ifs".

henkster: "I’d also like to see a railroad map for 1865."

For the Confederacy, it would be the same as 1860, less damages brought by war.