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Hello. After I reread all of this, I realized that you all are speaking of a the railroad as if it was in existance during the Civil War.
I may take a beating on this, but I do not believe the railroad was completed until after the war ended.
I say that because I have seen a map of the railroad and it was from the National Archives. The map was around about 1867 and I did know the exact date. One of the local guys has it still and I know what I saw. It came as a surprise to me that the railroad was not yet complete, but then it was not really important to folks until the war ended. The plans were in the works for moving on to Little Rock but it had not yet happened.
With the railroads came progress and at least three of the now towns within Lonoke County developed meaning for this county, Lonoke, Carlisle and England. I feel sure it was true all over the state.
Some 40 or so years later, my great grandfather needed a rail head to ship from to sale his cattle to the markets in Kansas City is what I have been told. Prior to that, I know he sold cattle to the King Ranch in Texas.
So I know for a fact how important the trains were to the development of Arkansas after the Civil War.
Linda

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