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  title info:
    title: Civil War supply and strategy
    sub title: feeding men and moving armies
  name:
    name part: Hess, Earl J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: lau
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 432 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In "Civil War Supply and Strategy," renowned Civil War historian Earl Hess examines the decisive link between distributing provisions to soldiers and the strategic movement of armies during the conflict. Feeding men and moving armies, he suggests, became the foundation of success, especially for the army that was on the strategic offensive. While a defending army found its logistical and supply problems minimized, an offensive army discovered that those problems multiplied. The purpose of Hess's newest study is to see how generals and their subordinates organized military resources to provide food for both men and animals under their command, especially when on the strategic offensive. It takes a chronological approach to the topic, looking at the significant campaigns of the Civil War in each of the three major theaters of operations. He devotes more attention to the West, the region between the Appalachian highlands and the Mississippi River because that is where the problems of shipping material and moving large armies were most formidable. The Union army developed a powerful logistical capability that enabled it to penetrate Confederate territory and exert control over selected regions of the South. Its strategy was therefore heavily dependent on lines of supply, road systems, pre-existing railroad lines and natural watercourses. Union logistical power, Hess explains, was limited, and those limitations also influenced its strategy. Union commanders could efficiently operate in the upper South, but the Deep South presented unusual problems. The Mississippi River allowed its armies to penetrate the region along a narrow corridor of control, capturing all key cities along its banks, and railroads barely allowed William T. Sherman to advance as far as Atlanta. For the rest of the Deep South, however, the Union army relied on massive strategic raids to destroy resources and bring its military power into the heart of the Confederacy. One of Hess's main objectives is t…
  table of contents: War in the Upper South -- Grant and Vicksburg -- Stockpiling Food at Vicksburg -- Transportation Crisis in Appalachia -- Sherman and Atlanta -- Hood and Sherman in North Georgia -- Hood's Tennessee Campaign -- Strategic Raids in the Deep South -- Rails and Rivers in the Trans-Mississippi -- Supplying the Army of the Potomac -- Feeding the Army of Northern Virginia.
  note: Earl J. Hess.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    topic: Logistics
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    topic: Equipment and supplies
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    topic: Campaigns
  classification: E468.9 .H568 2020
  classification: 973.7/3
  identifier: 9780807173329
  identifier: 0807173320
  identifier: 9780807174470
  identifier: 9780807174487
  identifier: 2020009006
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200506
    record change date: 20210125091557.0
    record identifier: in00004355820