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Of course immediately.

The first important battle in which the Confederates made use of the railroads was that of First Manassas, when Joseph Johnston managed to bring in the battlefield about 9,000 reinforcements from the Shenandoah valley by train.

It was the first strategic use of railroad transportation in the military history.

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