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Side 103 - The value of railways is also fully recognized in war quite as much as, if not more so than, in peace. The Atlanta campaign would simply have been impossible without the use of the railroads from Louisville to Nashville — one hundred and eighty-five miles — from Nashville to Chattanooga — one hundred and fiftyone miles — and from Chattanooga to Atlanta — one hundred and thirty-seven miles. Every mile of this "single track...
Side 103 - single track" was so delicate, that one man could in a minute have broken or moved a rail, but our trains usually carried along the tools and means to repair such a break. We had, however, to maintain strong guards and garrisons at each important bridge or trestle — the destruction of which would have necessitated time for rebuilding.
Side 48 - Kurnal — indeed, some of the cattle had marched nearly 1200 miles-- the animals would not have been so knocked up ; but they were worn out by a long march, bad water, and want of food, and therefore our loss was very severe, and those remaining had strength only equal to the carriage of halfloads.
Side 84 - Fitzgerald's lighting camel corps to fetch food from Shahpoor, with orders to scour the ravine of Tonge once more during his march, and even to attack that place if it contained enemies. The military excellence and power of this anomalous corps were then strikingly shown. With hired sumpter camels the marches alone would have occupied six days and nights ; and a strong escort must have been employed to protect the convoy. Fitzgerald's men, self-supported as a military body, not only scoured the ravine...
Side 103 - We had, however, to maintain strong guards and garrisons at each important bridge or trestle — the destruction of which would have necessitated time for rebuilding. For the protection of a bridge, one or two log blockhouses, two stories high, with a piece of ordnance and a small infantry guard, usually sufficed. The block-house had a small parapet and ditch about it, and the roof Avas made shot-proof by earth piled on.
Side 103 - To have delivered regularly that amount of food and forage by ordinary wagons would have required thirty-six thousand eight hundred wagons of six mules each, allowing each wagon to have hauled two tons twenty miles each day, a simple impossibility in roads such as then existed in that region of country. Therefore, I reiterate that the Atlanta campaign was an impossibility without these railroads; and only then, because we had the men and means to maintain and defend them, in addition to what were...
Side 103 - Our trains from Nashville forward were operated under military rules, and ran about ten miles an hour in gangs of four trains of ten cars each. Four such groups of trains daily made one hundred and sixty cars, of ten tons each, carrying sixteen hundred tons, which exceeded the absolute necessity of the army, and allowed for the accidents that were common and inevitable. But, as I have recorded, that single stem of railroad, four hundred and seventy-three...