Northern Central Railway and Heritage Rail Trail Guidebook: Mason-Dixon Sites (Robert L. Williams & Scott Mingus LH) Study of Civil War and many others—ordinary folk thrust

and many others—ordinary folk thrust into harrowing circumstances—and their struggle to recover from their unexpected and often devastating losses

and homesickness and worried about loved ones left at home without financial support

Frederick Douglass had every opportunity and reason to be bitter or vengeful

fell to disease

Northern Central Railway and Heritage Rail Trail Guidebook: Mason-Dixon Sites (Robert L. Williams & Scott Mingus LH) Study of Civil War and many others—ordinary folk thrustby Robert L. Williams & Scott Mingus The Northern Central Railway was the primary railroad between Baltimore, Maryland, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and point farther north from the mid 1800s for more than 100 years. Part of the route on both sides of the Mason Dixon Line is now a heritage rail trail, highlighted by a few restored stations. Abraham Lincoln rode these rails on his way to and from Gettysburg to deliver the famed Gettysburg Address in