Manuscript Collections
Edward Porter Alexander papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Dun & Bradstreet Credit Reports, Baker Library, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Albert Fink papers, Library of Congress.
Henry W. Grady papers, Emory University Library, Atlanta, Georgia.
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, minutes of directors’ and annual meetings and other documents, Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company archives.
Charles M. McGhee papers, Lawson-McGhee Library, Knoxville, Tennessee.
William G. Raoul papers, Emory University Library, Atlanta, Georgia.
Milton H. Smith letters, privately printed, Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company archives.
Samuel Spencer papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Books
Adler, Cyrus. Jacob H. Schiff: His Life and Letters. New York, 1929.
Armes, Ethel. The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama. Birmingham, 1910.
Black, Robert C, III. The Railroads of the Confederacy. Chapel Hill, 1952.
Clark, Thomas D. The Beginning of the L. & N. Louisville, 1933.
Clews, Henry. Twenty-Eight Years in Wall Street. New York, 1909.
Curry, Leonard. Rail Routes South: Louisville’s Fight for the Southern Market. Lexington, 1969.
Doster, James F. Railroads in Alabama Politics, 1875–1914. Tuscaloosa, 1957.
——. Alabama’s First Railroad Commission, 1881–1885. Tuscaloosa, 1945.
Dozier, H. A History of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. New York, 1920.
Grodinsky, Julius. Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 1869–1893. Philadelphia, 1963.
Hall, Charles, ed. The Cincinnati Southern. Cincinnati, 1902.
Herr, Kincaid A. Louisville & Nashville Railroad 1850–1963. Louisville, 1964.
Johnston, James. Western and Atlantic Railroad of the State of Georgia. Atlanta, 1931.
Joubert, William H. Southern Freight Rates in Transition. Gainesville, 1949.
Kerr, John L. The Louisville & Nashville: An Outline History. New York, 1933.
Kerr, Joseph G. Historical Development of the Louisville & Nashville System. Louisville, 1926.
Klein, Maury. The Great Richmond Terminal. Charlottesville, 1970.
Kolko, Gabriel. Railroads and Regulation 1877–1916. Princeton, 1965.
Milton, Ellen Fink. A Biography of Albert Fink. Rochester, 1951.
Nixon, Raymond B. Henry W. Grady: Spokesman of the New South. New York, 1943.
Overton, Richard C. Burlington Route: A History of the Burlington Lines. New York, 1965.
Ripley, William Z. Railroads: Rates and Regulations. New York, 1927.
——. Railroads: Finance and Organization. New York, 1915.
Ripley, William Z., ed. Railway Problems. Boston, 1913.
Sparkes, Boyden, and Samuel Taylor Moore. Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street. New York, 1935.
Stover, John F. American Railroads. Chicago, 1961.
——. Railroads of the South, 1865–1900. Chapel Hill, 1955.
——. The Life and Decline of the American Railroad. New York, 1970.
Taylor, George R., and Irene Neu. The American Railroad Network 1861–1900. Cambridge, 1956.
Weber, Thomas. The Northern Railroads in the Civil War, 1861–1865. New York, 1952.
Articles
Clark, Thomas D. “The People, William Goebel, and the Kentucky Railroads,” Journal of American History, (February 1939), 34–48.
Grantham, Dewey W. Jr. “Goebel, Gonzales, Carmack: Three Violent Scenes in Southern Politics,” Mississippi Quarterly, XI (Winter 1958), 29–37.
Hudson, Henry. ‘The Southern Railway and Steamship Association,” Quarter Journal of Economics, V (October 1891), 70–94.
Klein, Maury, “Southern Railroad Leaders, 1865–1893: Identities and Ideologies,” Business History Review, XLII (Autumn 1968), 288–310.
——. “The Strategy of Southern Railroads, 1865–1893,” American Historical Review, LXXIII (April 1968), 1052–68.
——, and Kozo Yamamura, “The Growth Strategies of Southern Railroads, 1865–1893,” Business History Review, XLI (Winter 1967), 358–77.
Smith, Milton H. “The Powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission,” North American Review, DVI (January 1899), 62–76.
——. “The Dangerous Demands of the Interstate Commerce Commission,” The Forum, XXV (April 1898), 129–43.
——. “The Inordinate Demands of the Interstate Commerce Commission,” The Forum, XXVII (July 1899), 551–63·
Tachau, Mary K. Bonsteel, “The Making of a Railroad President: Milton Hannibal Smith and the L & N,” Filson Club History Quarterly, XLIII, No. 2 (April 1969), 125–150.
Periodicals
American Railroad Journal
Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Journal
Bradstreet’s Journal
Commercial and Financial Chronicle
Handbook of Financial Securities
Lexington Kentucky Gazette
Louisville Courier
Louisville Courier-Journal
Louisville Journal
The L & N Employes’ Magazine
Modern Railroads
New York Herald
New York Indicator
New York Journal of Finance
New York Sun
The New York Times
New York Tribune
New York World
Poor’s Manual of the Railroads of the United States
Railroad Gazette
Railway World
Wall Street Daily News
Wall Street Journal
United States Government Publications
U.S. Bureau of the Census. Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1957. Washington, 1960.
U.S. Bureau of Statistics. Annual Reports on the Internal Commerce of the United States. Washington, 1877-
Reports of the Industrial Commission. Washington, 1900–1902.
“Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co. Hearings before the Interstate Commerce Commission,” Senate Document 461, 64 Cong. 1 Sess. (May, 1916), 1–519.
“Railway Rates and Charges, etc.,” Senate Documents, 55 Cong. 2 Sess., No. 259, 1–24.
“Report of the Committee on Interstate Affairs,” Senate Reports, 49 Cong. 1 Sess., No. 46.
Railroad Annual Reports1
Central of Georgia, 1838–1910.
Georgia, 1872–1900.
Louisville & Nashville, 1866–1970.
Mobile & Montgomery, 1876–79.
Mobile & Ohio, 1867, 1869–71, 1877–82, 1888–90.
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis, 1875–1900.
1 These printed annual reports are listed by railroad to eliminate the needless repetition of long and basically similar titles caused by frequent change of company name.