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141796
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The influence of weather conditions on combat operations has not received the attention it deserves from military historians. No better example can be provided, however, of the sometimes determinant effect of weather on the course of battle than the impact of severe flooding on the outcome of the U.S. Civil War battle of Shiloh, fought between Union and Confederate armies in southwestern Tennessee on 6-7 April, 1862.
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ID:
187241
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The historiography of U. S. Grant’s 1863 Vicksburg Campaign is extensive. Numerous tactical studies dissect in detail unit movements, strategy, and the intricacies of the siege leading to the fall of Vicksburg. Much of the campaign’s logistics remain largely untreated. This study assesses the impact of environmental conditions on complex logistical operations and how those conditions constrained battle plans, dictated command decisions, and determined tactics, given the limitations of Civil War technology. Primary focus is on Grant’s land campaign from Bruinsburg Landing to the initiation of the siege of Vicksburg. A shift from a combat operations-based to a science-based paradigm synergizes battlefield weather conditions, terrain limitations, physical properties of soils traversed by an animal-dependent army on the move, and the impact of geology on trafficability and sources of potable water, offering a new understanding of what many consider the most important campaign of the Civil War.
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175176
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The Union war effort west of the Appalachians during the American Civil War depended on the ability to supply and defend the massive Union depot in Nashville, Tennessee. Detailed analysis of the logistical problems in supplying Nashville Depot from late February 1862 through April 1865—via the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and the Cumberland River—reveals how the depot was able to support the thousands of Federal troops occupying the city, and also feed, clothe, and arm nearly 150,000 troops during periods of significant guerrilla insurgency. Logistical necessity required control of the Cumberland River from its mouth on the Ohio River to Nashville, and the U.S. Navy was essential to this strategic imperative.
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