"HeyBub" wrote:


Right. Ordinary historians study tactics - military historians study
logistics.

One of the things that impressed me from Grant's memoirs was when he talked
tactics, he talked terrain. When he talked strategy, he talked logistics.
Sherman's march to the sea and Sheridan's sacking of the Shenandoah (say that
three times fast) weren't punitive, they were attacks on Lee's supplies.

When General Lee abandoned Richmond, he still commanded a force of almost
30,000 soldiers, but he left his supplies - such as they were - behind.
Without food, ammunition, and the rest of the logistical train, he had no
choice but to surrender a few days later.

Yep. Lee was racing Grant to a supply train west of Appomattox. Grant got
there first.

-- Doug