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    1. Angry Staff Officer‏ @pptsapper 4 Mar 2020

      Of the regimental wagons, 1 was for the surgeon, 1 for tents & baggage of field & staff officers, 1 for baggage of line officers, 1 for the cooking equipment of line companies, & 2 carried rations for 2 days Men carried 3 days of marching rations, giving 5 days of mobility

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    2. Angry Staff Officer‏ @pptsapper 4 Mar 2020

      A cow could furnish 450 rations of 3/4 lb of smoked meat per person. 8 cows could provide marching rations for a brigade. Commissary Sgt oversaw the care & slaughtering of beef on the hoof. Collected the hides to be turned into the Army for proof of use & for recycling to leather

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    3. Angry Staff Officer‏ @pptsapper 4 Mar 2020

      This is all to say: warfare in the 19th century was incredibly complex and synchronization of *any* of the warfighting functions was a massive task. Sustainment was key. If you could not sustain, if you could not develop sustainment doctrine, SOPs, standardization, you died.

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    4. Angry Staff Officer‏ @pptsapper 4 Mar 2020

      For more on how those standardizations came to be, I highly recommend this book:pic.twitter.com/7a4S6wJ6s9

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    5. Angry Staff Officer‏ @pptsapper 4 Mar 2020

      Where you'll also realize that George McClellan is a manifestly worse general than you ever even thought possible. So. Damn. Bad. Calling him the "commander" of the Army of the Potomac is a falsehood, because he never was there to command it during the Seven Days Campaign

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    6. Angry Staff Officer‏ @pptsapper 6 Mar 2020

      The common time rate of march for a Civil War soldier was 2.3 mph. In quick time, 2.9 mph. In double quick time, 3.7 mph. An infantry regiment in column of fours would occupy 600 feet of road and take about 3 minutes to pass a single point.

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    7. Angry Staff Officer‏ @pptsapper 6 Mar 2020

      A battery of artillery, by contrast, would occupy almost 300 yards on the march. A six mule team with Army wagon would occupy 60 lineal feet. Haul capacity usable dimensions for an Army wagon were 120 inches long, 43 inches wide, 22 inches high. Carried 2500 lbs, 3000 with forage

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    8. Angry Staff Officer‏ @pptsapper 6 Mar 2020

      An Army wagon could carry 1200 rations of hard bread, 2000 rations of coffee, 1800 sugar rations, 300 pork rations, 1200 salt rations, 36 oat rations for a gross weight of 2674 pounds. Add 400 pounds for forage for the mule team. Adjusted for trafficable road conditions

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    9. Angry Staff Officer‏ @pptsapper 6 Mar 2020

      A driver known as a "muleskinner" oversaw the maintenance of the teams. The regimental quartermaster oversaw vehicle maintenance: greasing bolts, chains, wheel wells, etc. Ensured duplicate spare parts were on hand for parts that would break during the march.

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    10. Angry Staff Officer‏ @pptsapper 6 Mar 2020

      A regiment of 1,000 men - on paper - could count on 9% being sick and 26% being absent on additional duties, meaning an available strength of 646 men, before even battle casualties or AWOLs diminished this further

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 6 Mar 2020
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      Adjust upwards if fighting in Mississippi, or (elsewhere in that era) Vera Cruz, the Danube basin, etc.

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