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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.)
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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
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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.

10 posted on 04/17/2017 8:21:25 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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"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 ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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