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Rail transportation led to lower costs overall and there was no appreciable difference between rates charged to southern and northern customers.[1] This a fiction spread by southern revisionists.
Gov Ellis Arnall of Ga took the RRs to court and the Supreme Court rulled in Ga's favor on the rate fixing in 1945http://supreme.justia.com/us/324/439/
Motion granted.On motion by the Georgia for leave to file an amended bill of complaint against twenty railroads.
They were granted permission to file a complaint. That is not the same as saying they proved rate fixing in court only that they were proved to have legal standing to file a complaint. I am not a lawyer I would have to ask my sister in law to look at it but that does not seem to show that Georgia was granted relief form any alleged rate-fixing, only the ability to attempt to prove it. And that almost 80 years after the war ended and I can see nothing in reading the full opinuion that says the rate fixing is pre civil war in fact one of the defendants is an air and railway company. Full Text of Case, The case also contends that the rate fixing is in violation of the Clayton and Sherman Antitrust Acts. the Clayton Antitrust Act was passed in 1914 and the Sherman Antitrust Act was passed in 1890 so neither bill even existed at the time of the Civil War. I vote that my contention still stands, there is no evidence of Northern price fixing being an incentive for the Southern states to secede.
