Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat"After providing an excellent overview of Union and Confederate railway capabilities and effectiveness at decision-making. Clark details two specific rail movements as case studies in logistical management - the Confederacy's transfer of General James Longstreet's 13,000 men from the Army of Northern Virginia to the Army of Tennessee in the fall of 1863 and the Union's responding shift of 23,000 soldiers in the 11th and 12th Corps into the western theater, movements key to the battles at Chickamauga and Chattanooga. Using exciting stories found in diaries and letters as well as official records and telegrams. Clark explains how the Union wisely and confidently organized and directed and massive undertaking and how the Confederacy, having failed to properly mobilize its rail system for war, did not."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
Government Responses | 26 |
Crisis and Decision | 74 |
The Federal Government Responds | 141 |
The Success | 160 |
The Failure of Confederate War Management | 213 |
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