Chapters of Erie Author:Charles Francis Adams, Jr. The Adams brothers saw barely concealed buccaneers and cardsharps in the men behind the Erie Railroad scandal of the late 1860's--a scandal that "convulsed the money market, occupied the courts, agitated legislatures, and perplexed the country." The chicanery and the coundrels involved were well known to railroad commissioner Charles Francis Ad... more »ams and his famous brother Henry, for they had more than once witnessed and reported the financial machinations that rocked the nation's economy in the years immediately following the Civil War. This well-documented, fascinating, and in some aspects ironic account of the Erie Railroad wars offers important insight into the character of post-Civil War America.« less