tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16471073.post3602883277987967753..comments2024-03-25T14:51:02.583-07:00Comments on Civil War Books and Authors: Stone: "VITAL RAILS: The Charleston & Savannah Railroad and the Civil War in Coastal South Carolina"DW@CWBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00018056113264346047noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16471073.post-15181250835085679422020-06-14T07:16:43.199-07:002020-06-14T07:16:43.199-07:00My name is T.Breno Riker. I am a descendant of R.H...My name is T.Breno Riker. I am a descendant of R.H. Riker (Robert Henry Riker). I live in Brazil. <br />I understand that there is information about him on page 271 of this book. In that sense, I am interested in knowing what this information about Riker is on this page.<br />Before the Civil War, Robert Henry Riker was involved with the rail industry in the South, along with his brother Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16471073.post-1258365802525058062013-02-09T05:51:58.575-08:002013-02-09T05:51:58.575-08:00Dear Dr. Stone,
Please allow me to introduce myse...Dear Dr. Stone,<br /><br />Please allow me to introduce myself. I am a South Carolina native currently residing in New Hampshire and working on a book-length biography of Colonel Charles J. Colcock. I was very excited to run across your book and learn more about the railroads key part in his life and that of the Lowcountry.<br /><br />My goal is to look at all the social, religious, and economic Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16471073.post-31916791227871434222012-01-18T17:52:25.426-08:002012-01-18T17:52:25.426-08:00My name is Eugene Cain. I have learned "almos...My name is Eugene Cain. I have learned "almost" all there is to learn about the SAL route between Charleston and Savannah. Hope this information is helpful. The line was<br />begun in 1915 and completed at the end of 1917. Three construction gangs worked on the line at both ends and in the middle. Much fill work was required as well as a dozen or so major bridges. The line was built Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16471073.post-7686118981031955702011-01-22T11:57:19.351-08:002011-01-22T11:57:19.351-08:00Thanks for your comments. You are correct. The pho...Thanks for your comments. You are correct. The photo was, in fact, of the newer line built by the SAL. This was a fact that, evidently, the people I spoke to regarding that particular area, did not know. I was never able to get help from the academicians who knew about that area, and had to rely on the accounts of others associated with the marker. Had I had Google Earth available to me at the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16471073.post-15929901151101222852010-09-26T11:53:08.870-07:002010-09-26T11:53:08.870-07:00This is an excellent book and a great contribution...This is an excellent book and a great contribution to preserving the railroading and Civil War history of South Carolina. However, it includes an error (which is only tangential to the whole story, by the way) in Chapter 18 related to the abandoned rail bed that runs through the Links golf course at Stono Ferry. The historic sign erected on the course and Dr. Stone's writing relative to that Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16471073.post-44403158363510485662010-08-25T07:24:23.624-07:002010-08-25T07:24:23.624-07:00An information point, Vital Rails: The Charleston...An information point, Vital Rails: The Charleston & Savannah Railroad and the Civil War in Coastal South Carolina by H. David Stone was awarded the 2008 Dr. James I. Robertson Literary Prize for Confederate History by the Robert E. Lee Civil War Library & Research Center of Central New Jersey.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com