Jonathan K. Rice
Autor/a de Moving Mountains: A Study in Civil War Logistics
Obres de Jonathan K. Rice
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The book needed a good editor, to organize the content, eliminate the many digressions, and correct the many annoying typos. The organization (apparently) is to provide general observations (such as the weight of ammo boxes) and then use Gettysburg as a case study. To my astonishment, Rice specifically excludes City Point (the biggest Union supply camp) from his study in logistics. Rice also does not discuss how trains were used to transport supplies, instead only discussing wagon transportation.
The bibliography is strewn with references to Wikipedia; I often use Wikipedia as a quick reference, but not as a source for a book when the authors can be unknown and its information unsubstantiated.
Yet Rice has documented some information that I had not seen elsewhere: the weight of ammo boxes, how the pontoon bridges were transported, how the surgeons and ambulances were transported as part of the supply wagon trains, and his calculations for the food required by troops and transport animals. Rice also criticizes the Confederate movement of troops and supplies to Gettysburg, blaming bad logistics handling for delays in moving troops and ammunition to what would be the battlefield. This criticism was interesting, and I wished he had developed it more. Yet, I have another book (I believe it is entitled "Retreat from Gettysburg") where the author praises the Confederate's retreat for its mastery of logistics in moving troops, wounded, and supplies back to the safety of Virginia. Obviously, there is some controversy about how well Lee's army handled logistics.
All in all, the book disappointed me.… (més)