nmleague -> RE: Showing city garrisons on map (12/12/2006 2:00:12 AM)
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Had to laugh at that!! Put your self back in time, by the time it would take someone to get a Cleveland newspaper all the way to Richmond and for the CSA to be able to react to it would probably be 6 months or more. And how many nothern cities had papers that came out daily, that could be relied upon. That is unless they had a high speed plane or direct railline. Granted spies might get some information from papers (although the accuracy would be suspect), but people forget the scale in distance and the time it would take for information to be passed from one side to the other. Lets see a single man on horseback might be able to cover 15 miles on a good day (no pony express way stations at which to change horses), but then of course depending on roads and the health of the horse etc., he would be lucky to cover 400 miles in a month and that is one way. This brings up raiders and them taking supplies. How far could raiders acutally be expected to go behind lines, and given their lack of transport how much could they actulally carry back. They might be able to make a long ride living off the land, disrupting things. But could they actually steal military supplies. Most military supplies were probably well guarded, and if they did take them how could they make it back to their own lines with the goods. The idea of raiders capturing 10 tons of iron and taking it back to the south is a little far fetched. Its interesting, does anyone have any reports or figures of what quanity of goods CSA raiders actually were able to capture. Or was their primary job to disrupt things and force Union troops to pursue them rather than be used vs the CSA armies.
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