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"He Was So Well Provided For That He Could Sweep The World For Gain": The Supply Of Sherman's Armies During The Atlanta Campaign, 1864, J. Britt Mccarley

History Theses

Forward:

The following study is in some ways not a traditional treatment of the American Civil War. Consequently, it is the purpose of this introduction to prepare any potential reader for what lies ahead. Civil War historians have long written of the "American Iliad," as it is sometimes called, as if it simply appeared, from a military perspective, out of nowhere, with no preceding experiences which influenced its course nor any consequences which resulted from it. In short, "tunnel vision" has been a characteristic trait of many chroniclers of the War of the Rebellion.

This work, therefore, attempts to go …