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Supply and transportation facilities of the North.

The immense supply and transportation facilities of the North in 1864, contrasted with the situation of the Southern soldiery, recalls Bonaparte's terse speech to his army in Italy: ‘Soldiers! You need everything—the enemy has everything.’ The Confederates often acted upon the same principle. At City Point, Virginia, Grant's wagon-trains received the army supplies landed from the ships.

Loading supply-wagons from transports for Grant's army—City Point, 1864

Pork, hard-tack, sugar, and coffee for the regimental commissary at Cedar level


 

Review of Reviews. New York. 1912.

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