Trivia 5-15-17 Strategy

[William G Hendry]

SECRATERY STANTON

http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/edwin-m-stanton

He also revamped the transport system and made extensive use of railroads to speed the shipment of war materiel. One of Stanton's most notable accomplishments came in September 1863, when he took a mere 10 days to coordinate the transport of 20,000 troops over 1,500 miles to reinforce Union General William Rosecrans at Chattanooga, Tennessee

 

[amweiner]

It looks like that was Edwin M. Stanton, at least according to this source, Lincoln's Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton.

https://books.google.com/books?id=U...lincoln to send troops to chattanooga&f=false

 

[Schwallanscher]

edwin m stanton

p 353 - 23 september

 

[ErnieMac]

Edwin M. Stanton.

 

[hoosier]

I'm not too sure about this, but I'll go with Charles Anderson Dana.

 

[GELongstreet]

Was there really a single person to do so? As far as I understood it the plan was made by Edwin Stanton, supported by others including Halleck and even, though involuntarily, by Meade himself when he said that he currently had no offensive plans.

 

[ami]

Answer: Edwin M Stanton.
Stanton: Life And Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War; Benjamin P. Thomas & Harold M. Hyman; Knopf, New York; 1962. Also Team of Rivals by D. K. Goodwin and Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson