Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction
This book reexamines the Civil War and Reconstruction through the lens of the Southern Railway Security Company, a massive railway system that connected eastern Virginia to the Lower South.It has been reviewed here in the Journal of American History and here in the American Historical Review. There's also a review on the online version of The Atlantic Monthly.
Here is a timeline I wrote while I was writing the book.
The book is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Books a Million