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Civil War Supply and Strategy - Feeding Men and Moving Armies (Hardcover)
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Civil War Supply and Strategy - Feeding Men and Moving Armies (Hardcover)
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Civil War Supply and Strategy stands as a sweeping examination of
the decisive link between the distribution of provisions to
soldiers and the strategic movement of armies during the Civil War.
Award-winning historian Earl J. Hess reveals how that dynamic
served as the key to success, especially for the Union army as it
undertook bold offensives striking far behind Confederate lines.
How generals and their subordinates organized military resources to
provide food for both men and animals under their command, he
argues, proved essential to Union victory. The Union army developed
a powerful logistical capability that enabled it to penetrate deep
into Confederate territory and exert control over select regions of
the South. Logistics and supply empowered Union offensive strategy
but limited it as well; heavily dependent on supply lines, road
systems, preexisting railroad lines, and natural waterways, Union
strategy worked far better in the more developed Upper South. Union
commanders encountered unique problems in the Deep South, where
needed infrastructure was more scarce. While the Mississippi River
allowed Northern armies to access the region along a narrow
corridor and capture key cities and towns along its banks, the
dearth of rail lines nearly stymied William T. Sherman's advance to
Atlanta. In other parts of the Deep South, the Union army relied on
massive strategic raids to destroy resources and propel its
military might into the heart of the Confederacy. As Hess's study
shows, from the perspective of maintaining food supply and moving
armies, there existed two main theaters of operation, north and
south, that proved just as important as the three conventional
eastern, western, and Trans-Mississippi theaters. Indeed, the
conflict in the Upper South proved so different from that in the
Deep South that the ability of Federal officials to negotiate the
logistical complications associated with army mobility played a
crucial role in determining the outcome of the war.
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