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Rivers and Rails: Daggers of the Civil War | NPT

Episode 7 | 28m 46sVideo has Closed Captions

Explore how transportation by water and steel brought great prosperity to Tennessee.

Explore how transportation by water and steel brought great prosperity to the state just before the Civil War, only to give the invading Union Army a highway directly into the Deep South, eventually helping force the Confederacy to its knees.

05/30/2013 | Rating NR

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Tennessee Civil War 150 is a local public television program presented by WNPT

Rivers and Rails: Daggers of the Civil War | NPT

Episode 7 | 28m 46sVideo has Closed Captions

Explore how transportation by water and steel brought great prosperity to the state just before the Civil War, only to give the invading Union Army a highway directly into the Deep South, eventually helping force the Confederacy to its knees.

05/30/2013 | Rating NR

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