DaveBrt
1st Lieutenant
- Joined
- Mar 6, 2010
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
Jonathan Rice has pulled together many small, even casual, bits of information to flesh out many of our questions about army logistics. Naturally he goes into detail about rations, as many people have, but he also covers forage, medical and ammunition matters for each of the three combat arms and the engineers. He covers the use of the haversack, types of tents, number of rounds in the chest of each type of artillery, etc.
Rice measures and computes to give us the number of wagons required to carry the XX for a particular unit and then the length of units, with their wagons, on the march. For example, a Union 6-gun battery required 15 wagons in the train and he breaks it down to what type item was on each wagon.
About 60% of the book is a study of the Gettysburg campaign, from each side, showing the impact of various logistics elements on the battle -- what were the orders of marching (troops vs wagons), who was guarding the wagons, what supplies were being carried, where were the wagons placed on (or, not on) the battlefield, etc. He clearly covers Hooker's reorganizing and streamlining the trains just before the campaign starts and compares his orders with those of Lee.
This is a small book (125 pages of text) that should be read with a marker in hand, since he does not display most of his data in tables and does not include an index (boo).
Rice measures and computes to give us the number of wagons required to carry the XX for a particular unit and then the length of units, with their wagons, on the march. For example, a Union 6-gun battery required 15 wagons in the train and he breaks it down to what type item was on each wagon.
About 60% of the book is a study of the Gettysburg campaign, from each side, showing the impact of various logistics elements on the battle -- what were the orders of marching (troops vs wagons), who was guarding the wagons, what supplies were being carried, where were the wagons placed on (or, not on) the battlefield, etc. He clearly covers Hooker's reorganizing and streamlining the trains just before the campaign starts and compares his orders with those of Lee.
This is a small book (125 pages of text) that should be read with a marker in hand, since he does not display most of his data in tables and does not include an index (boo).
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