The central Confederate government encountered problems dealing with the states throughout the war inn regards to railroads.
Another problem was that existing tracks and rolling stock were so often cannibalized for iron to put on naval ironclads
It took the Confederate government two years to get some semblance of a plan worked out for its railroads. 1863. Railroads became under de facto control of the military, but there was no record that this ever became so.
Mr. Banks talked quite a bit about the Confederate use of railroads during the First battle of Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign as well as the Great Locomotive Chase and the moving of Longstreet's Corps to Bragg in the Chickamauga/Chattanooga Campaign.
Longstreet's soldiers experienced quite a series of rerouting and ended up going through North and South Carolina and Georgia to get there.
By 1865, the Confederacy's railroads were in ruins, however, they recovered very quickly as it was important to rebuild the South.
--Old Secesh
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