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June 11, 2019 at 7:11 pm #1403547

bigdave

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@robert railways in the ACW are fascinating, very first battle at Bullrun was won thanks to trains bringing in Confederate reinforcements and thats before you even start to consider the role they played in states like Ohio where food stuffs could be transported to the east coast to feed vast numbers of people in uniform. Have you ever read the Starbuck Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell? There’s only 4 books I think but the importance of the railways features in several of them, whether it’s the Confederates having to tear them up and burn desperately needed supplies as the army withdraws from the frontier into more defensible positions to going on the offensive and capturing the same said railyards now under Union control, bristling with warehouses full of supplies and equipment. Good stuff! Good books, too…

@torros too right – the Great War far exceeded anything the army had to deal with ever before (even the Napoleonic Wars, when on paper the forces available to the crown numbered around a million – the army, the militia, the fencibles, the whole host of volunteer units that formed – they all needed to be armed and equipped). Industrial warfare! Infinitely fascinating if it wasn’t such a bloody horrendous thing…