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By Jonathan K. Rice

The germ of this rfile all started with questions: how a lot does it take to provide a Civil struggle army(the military of the Potomac has the easiest files so it's used because the exemplar) and because we're facing the nineteenth century guy, the numbers for different armies; Northern Virginia, Cumberland, Tennessee, may be pretty well an analogous; and the way does it paintings? the result of the learn are kind of whole, yet there's a host of unanswered questions. Are wagons unique by way of regiment, brigade, department, corps?(photographic proof means that a few wagons had a few kind of designation painted on their white tops) Does an identical wagon continuously hold an analogous provide? Forage( the one most typical provide unit) rations, administrative furnishings (desks, cooking apparatus, files)ammunition (are wagons particularly special by way of battery, are there normal artillery ammunition wagons? Are wagons sporting combined a lot; three” rifles 12 pound Napoleons, Parrot weapons) I did no locate the solutions, and those questions are left for different writers to investigate and answer.

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