GDG- Re: powder mills

[jack]

I think Grant was making that happen.

Regards,

Jack
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Biggsk at aol.com>
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Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 4:38 PM
Subject: GDG- Re: powder mills


> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
>
> Jack writes,
>
> Actually, most of the important stuff in the war was in the West until
> 64-65. Then it was whatever Grant made happen.
>
>
>
> Actually, it stayed the most important theater to the very end with 
> Sherman,
> James Wilson and other Union commanders eviscerating the supply,  food
> growing and industrial areas of the Confederacy.  Lee in early  1864 was 
> quite
> correct when he stated, "without Georgia, Virginia cannot  hold." 
> Virtually all of
> his food was coming from Georgia by this time, an  event that began in the
> Spring of 1863 to the detriment of the Army of  Tennessee, whose own food 
> area
> was shoved over to the Alabama-Mississippi border  along the Tombigbee 
> River.
> The fall of Atlanta certainly provided a huge  boost to Lincoln's 1864
> election - he certainly thought so.  Add in Mobile  Bay and Cedar Creek 
> and he had
> the hat trick he needed for Northern  morale.
>
> The final collapse of Tennessee in late November, 1863 shut the door for 
> the
> primary sources for horses for the Confederacy (KY and TN were Numbers 1 
> and
> 2 respectively) and 90 per cent of its copper supply for percussion caps 
> and
> Napoleon cannons from the mine at Ducktown, east of Chattanooga.
>
> Greg Biggs
>
>
>
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