The missing link
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 4:35 pm
I just noticed on the map that the game now gives us The Missing Link, a rail connection between Selma and Montgomery, Alabama. As far as I know this obvious connection was never built, so that transfer of troops from east to west had to go by a circuitous route through Mobile (for example, Bragg's redeployment prior to the 1862 invasion of Kentucky). I always wondered why the South wasted resources on ironclads rather than using some iron to build that potentially critical rail link. Thanks!