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This Business of War - Recollections of a Civil War Quartermaster (Paperback)
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This Business of War - Recollections of a Civil War Quartermaster (Paperback)
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Concerned with the logistical details of supplying the Army of the
Potomac as it bogged down during the Peninsula campaign or of
commandeering a steamboat to relieve the siege and get food to
stranded soldiers at Chattanooga, Le Duc tells his story of
mud-choked roads, incompetent commanders, and what he understands
as the crucial factor necessary for the Union's success in battle:
a well-supplied army. Through his close association with Generals
McClellan and Meade, Hooker and Sherman, Le Duc learned to master
the army's bureaucracy and overcome the hardships of trying to keep
Union supplies on the move. His compelling memoir is unique in
depicting the details of life in the Quartermaster Department.
William G Le Duc (1823-1917) moved to the Minnesota Territory in
1850. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he volunteered into the
Quartermaster Department and mustered out four years later as
brevet brigadier general. He later served as the US Commissioner of
Agriculture from 1877 until 1881 and retired to his home in
Hastings, Minnesota.
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