As Charles Dickens might have described it, rivers and rails brought the best of times and the worst of times to 19th century Tennessee. "Rivers and Rails: Daggers of the Civil War," the latest episode in the "Tennessee Civil War 150" series, a joint venture between Nashville Public Television (NPT) and The Renaissance Center, explores how transportation by water and steel brought great prosperity to the state just before the Civil War, only to give the invading Union Army a highway directly into the Deep South, eventually helping force the Confederacy to its knees.

"Rivers and Rails: Daggers of the Civil War," co-produced by the Emmy Award-winning team of Stephen Hall and Ken Tucker of The Renaissance Center, is the seventh episode in the "Tennessee Civil War 150" series, a multi-part project coinciding with the Sesquicentennial anniversary of the Civil War. Previous installments include "Secession," "Civil War Songs and Stories," "No Going Back: Women and the War" and "Shiloh: The Devil's Own Day" and "No Looking Back: African American and the War." All have either won or been nominated for regional Emmy Awards.

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