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"GITTIN STUFF"
The Impact of Equipment Management,
Supply & Logistics on Confederate Defeat
BY FRED SETH, CPPM, CF, HARBOUR LIGHTS CHAPTER 8
PROPERTY PROFESSIONAL Volume 18 Issue 2
PREFACE
After defeat in the Civil War, known by
some in the South as "The War of
Northern Aggression," Southerners were in
a quandary regarding their willingness for
war. As discussed in the first article of this
series, the North had the overwhelming
advantage in industrial capability and manpower.
If defeat was inevitable, then why
did Southerners risk everything by going to
war? Later Southern romantics would characterize
the War as, "a battle of bludgeon
against rapier and of machinery against
chivalry, in which the knight-errant was
bound to be run over by the locomotive, if
not overthrown by the windmill."
2
Despite limited resources, many historians
have rejected the notion that the South
was predetermined to lose. In a major work
published in 1960, Why the North Won the Civil War,
a number of distinguished historians
argued that the South could have
won, if it had conducted the war more
effectively. In a more recent work (1986),
Why the South Lost,equally distinguished
historians came to the same conclusion.
This third article covers the events leading
up to the collapse of the Confederacy
and the impact of equipment management,
supply support and logistics on its defeat. It
describes the strategic loss of Wilmington,
the last port providing supplies to Robert
E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and
the destruction or capture of factories and
farms in the Deep South and Richmond.
The lack of rations at Amelia Court House,
which has been called the immediate cause
of Lee's surrender, is examined in detail.
Most importantly, the article addresses how
the inability of its leaders to conduct productive
logistics, equipment, and supply
management led to the decline and ultimately,
the defeat of the Confederacy.
The article title also contains "Gittin'
Stuff," a term credited to controversial
Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
He used it to describe logistics, the
laborious process of procuring necessary
items, storing them until ready for use and
finally distributing supplies and equipment
among the soldiers or users.
Entire article at:
http://www.npma.org/Archives/Vol.18-2-Seth.pdf
The Impact of Equipment Management,
Supply & Logistics on Confederate Defeat
BY FRED SETH, CPPM, CF, HARBOUR LIGHTS CHAPTER 8
PROPERTY PROFESSIONAL Volume 18 Issue 2
PREFACE
After defeat in the Civil War, known by
some in the South as "The War of
Northern Aggression," Southerners were in
a quandary regarding their willingness for
war. As discussed in the first article of this
series, the North had the overwhelming
advantage in industrial capability and manpower.
If defeat was inevitable, then why
did Southerners risk everything by going to
war? Later Southern romantics would characterize
the War as, "a battle of bludgeon
against rapier and of machinery against
chivalry, in which the knight-errant was
bound to be run over by the locomotive, if
not overthrown by the windmill."
2
Despite limited resources, many historians
have rejected the notion that the South
was predetermined to lose. In a major work
published in 1960, Why the North Won the Civil War,
a number of distinguished historians
argued that the South could have
won, if it had conducted the war more
effectively. In a more recent work (1986),
Why the South Lost,equally distinguished
historians came to the same conclusion.
This third article covers the events leading
up to the collapse of the Confederacy
and the impact of equipment management,
supply support and logistics on its defeat. It
describes the strategic loss of Wilmington,
the last port providing supplies to Robert
E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and
the destruction or capture of factories and
farms in the Deep South and Richmond.
The lack of rations at Amelia Court House,
which has been called the immediate cause
of Lee's surrender, is examined in detail.
Most importantly, the article addresses how
the inability of its leaders to conduct productive
logistics, equipment, and supply
management led to the decline and ultimately,
the defeat of the Confederacy.
The article title also contains "Gittin'
Stuff," a term credited to controversial
Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
He used it to describe logistics, the
laborious process of procuring necessary
items, storing them until ready for use and
finally distributing supplies and equipment
among the soldiers or users.
Entire article at:
http://www.npma.org/Archives/Vol.18-2-Seth.pdf
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