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Laddar... Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation (utgåvan 2017)av Earl J. Hess (Författare)
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During the Civil War, neither the Union nor the Confederate army could have operated without effective transportation systems. Moving men, supplies, and equipment required coordination on a massive scale, and Earl J. Hess?s Civil War Logistics offers the first comprehensive analysis of this vital process. Utilizing an enormous array of reports, dispatches, and personal accounts by quartermasters involved in transporting war materials, Hess reveals how each conveyance system operated as well as the degree to which both armies accomplished their logistical goals. In a society just realizing the benefits of modern travel technology, both sides of the conflict faced challenges in maintaining national and regional lines of transportation. Union and Confederate quartermasters used riverboats, steamers, coastal shipping, railroads, wagon trains, pack trains, cattle herds, and their soldiers in the long and complicated chain that supported the military operations of their forces. Soldiers in blue and gray alike tried to destroy the transportation facilities of their enemy, firing on river boats and dismantling rails to disrupt opposing supply lines while defending their own means of transport. According to Hess, Union logistical efforts proved far more successful than Confederate attempts to move and supply its fighting forces, due mainly to the North?s superior administrative management and willingness to seize transportation resources when needed. As the war went on, the Union?s protean system grew in complexity, size, and efficiency, while that of the Confederates steadily declined in size and effectiveness until it hardly met the needs of its army. Indeed, Hess concludes that in its use of all types of military transportation, the Federal government far surpassed its opponent and thus laid the foundation for Union victory in the Civil War. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Authored by prolific Civil War historian Earl Hess and published by Louisiana State University Press in 2017,"Civil War Logistics" is a 368-page book divided into ten numbered pages, endnotes, and an index. As a field, logistics can be divided into distinct specialties: procurement, distribution, and transportation. Hess makes it clear in his title that this book only discusses transportation. Chapter 1 introduces the reader to logistics in military history going back to ancient times, while Chapter 2 lays out how the Federal and Confederate armies performed logistics according to mid-19th century concepts. Chapter 3 begins the examination of Civil War transportation systems with a view of river-based transportation--in essence, river steamers, the vast majority of which were paddle-wheelers. Hess initiates in this chapter the practice of first reviewing Union efforts in the field followed by Confederate efforts in the same method. Chapter 4 details Civil War use of the new railroad technology as a military logistics vehicle while demonstrating Union strengths and Confederate weaknesses in deploying this transportation mode. Chapter 5 is a look at coastal shipping as a military logistics tool and its role in Union operations; this mode of transportation had little impact for Confederate forces due to Union control of Confederate waters.
Chapter 6 covers what is known in modern military logistics as "the last tactical mile"--the horse-drawn wagon train. This mode of transportation was important to both sides in the war, and Hess treats the topic appropriately. Chapter 7 looks at three different and specialized transportation modes: pack horse and mule; cattle herds (really rations on the hoof); and foot power--after all each soldier carried a small supply depot on his person. Chapter 8 examines a specialized form of military logistics--the mass movement of troops. Hess focuses on the use of railroad for this logistics method by both sides, but there were also large troop movements by water during the war as well. Chapter 9 is about the countermeasures taken by Confederate forces against Union river transportation targets, while Chapter 10 shows how military force was used against railroads, wagon trains, and coastal shipping targets during the war.
Earl Hess has provided a welcome addition to the pool of Civil War scholarship in a field that seldom receives as much attention as it should. ( )