To: Kartographer
This is the kind of thing you can do when you have a substantial advantage in manpower and resources.
3 posted on
04/17/2017 7:16:05 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Does take some imagination, guts and tactical flexibility to pull it off, however. The goal was to distract Pemberton, and it did that.
5 posted on
04/17/2017 7:56:05 AM PDT by
Tallguy
To: BenLurkin
This is the kind of thing you can do when you have a substantial advantage in manpower and resources. Yet lacking both didn't seem to slow down Bedford Forrest any.
To: BenLurkin
"This is the kind of thing you can do when you have a substantial advantage in manpower and resources."
He cut his supply lines and lived off of what he captured but mainly off of what he took from the small farmers (mostly women and children cause the men were off to fight).
21 posted on
04/17/2017 8:56:29 AM PDT by
fella
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