And yet is was Lincoln’s use of the railroad as a spy transportation network that aided in the North winning the war. The railroad was not as utilized in the south as it was in the North. And when the South caught on much later in the war, the damage to the South had been done and it was too late to recover from. The North’s ultimate weapon against the South and greatly underestimated to this day was at the time the railroad. It is why the North destroyed railroad tracks in the South and guarded them in the North. This is one of the few unsung heros of the Civil War that many people do not know about.
Because I mention railroads as being an unsung hero, I am not for them as mass transit. Nor am I promulgating this to have more railway mass transit. This is just a not so well known fact about the Civil War. Usually, only the die-hard Civil War buffs typically know about this.
The North had a General Herman Haupt. The South had no one of such capability and skills.