JANUARY 31, 1862:
The emergency nationalization of the Union’s railroads is
formalized by the Railways and Telegraph Act. This legislation enabled the
President to take possession of railroads and run them as required to preserve
public safety. The War Department would supervise any railroads taken over by
the government. Few northern railroads were actually seized under the act but
those that were seized were organized into the United States Military Railroad
(U.S.M.R.R.).
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