how did food and supplies get from factories to solidiers camps in the civil war
2006-11-12 06:02:50 · 4 answers · asked by katie1221 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
By train, wagon, boat, horseback, mule, Ox cart, ferry, canal boat, flat bottom boat, river boat, barge or any other manner possible and available.
2006-11-12 06:07:20 · answer #1 · answered by Bob 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Largely by train, for short trips wagons and a very few cattle drives.The Federals only got a cooked meal on the morning of a big battle and usually ate hardtack a kind of brick-like dough of meal and flour along with a kind of dried fatback. This was savored with plenty of dishwater like coffee.
Sense they hadn't considered the value of vegetables that ration led to a form of gum rot that bore the name Civil War Disease. Late in the war, Sherman and Sheriden's troops lived very well off the land exercising a scorched earth policy much as the Russians did in WW2.
Confederate Raiders often plundered the Wagon Trains and that is where Yankee Greenbacks came from. Before this problem all American money was coin worth it's weight, that's why the paper money even to this day reads legal tender, ergo it is not real money but a Federal Surety of value!
For more details there is a book called, None Died in Vain!
2006-11-12 06:33:55 · answer #2 · answered by namazanyc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In theatre....horse and wagon. The train following Lee's army into Pennsylvania in 1863 was 17 miles long... Trains transported longer distances.
2006-11-12 09:03:32 · answer #3 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check this website... u have all u need about american history
http://www.course-notes.org/US_History/Outlines/
2006-11-12 06:13:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋