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The Mobile & Ohio Railroad in the Civil War: The Struggle for Control of the Nation's Longest Railway (Lee CH) beanie The unassuming “dust-covered man” wasby Dan Lee The Mobile & Ohio Railroad was the longest line in the nation when it was completed in spring of 1861 the final spike driven a few weeks after Confederate artillery shelled Fort Sumter. Within days, the M&O was swept up in the Civil War as a prime conveyor of troops and supplies, a strategic and tactical asset to both Confederate and Union armies, who fought to control it. Its northern terminus at Columbus, Kentucky saw some of the earliest