“Logistics was at the heart of why the South didn’t win its Independence. Their own ‘logistics’ were undermined by the extreme ‘states rights’ stance the South incorporated via their version of the Constitution. In short, that extreme viewpoint planted the seeds of the Confederates ultimate defeat.”
I guess they didn’t learn from the Revolution, either, wherein at least finally Washington stopped bowing to every equivocating suggestion from Congress.
And yet the Rev boys were MUCH worse off.
‘I guess they didn’t learn from the Revolution, either, wherein at least finally Washington stopped bowing to every equivocating suggestion from Congress.’
Nope, which is why the incompent and/or corrupt Northrup was in charge of logistics for the South til almost the very end. Its telling after he was replaced Lee had plenty of food and armaments waiting him just past Appromatox.
Alas, too late. Custers boy’s ate well.