u/JacobRiesenfern

The Dan Sickles story is weirder than I imagined. And the story is told by the greatest bard of the millennium

I am sure this has been asked before, but could you answer it again?

I see the plasma is confined in a circular high electron device that is surrounded by a metal thing that is also kept at 5 degrees kelvin. And I never see how the heat from the plasma is being transferred from the to a source of water which will spin a turbine

At Shilo he organized the mish mash of the different caliber ammunition, and got it up to the front line. He fought five battles in quick succession and made Pemberton look a total idiot. (He wasn’t. He followed idiotic orders of the civil president the way he was obliged in a democratic state, no matter his preference)
In Chattanooga he got the cracker line going first, and changed the Union army from starving to a strong force.
His greatest achievement was building the pontoon bridge across the James almost without Lee having a clue about it. And then he built a railroad along the line so his soldiers would eat.

Lee never had to do anything like what Grant did. Lee never did anything remotely did anything like the Vicksburg campaign, never made a break of a siege like he did at Vicksburg, never made a crossing line that at James, never dreamed of looking out for his command like Grant did.

Another AI generated but very well executed video about the logistics facing Sherman and Hood.
Sherman had the industrial muscle and the intelligence and foresight to keep his railroad to Chattanooga operating. Hood’s only source of replacing rail back in Richmond. Sherman got replacements instantly. When Sherman’s men turned railroads into neckties they were gone from the confederacy for good.

And the civil war was very much a war more dependent on logistics than any war before. Northern armies were fed, shod, and ready. The confederacy was famous for being barefoot and starving.

Sherman’s comments to his southern friends in 1860 should have been listened to.

An annoying but at the same time fascinating bit of AI about Sherman, Hood, Haupt and the railroad between Chattanooga and Atlanta.
Hood tried repeatedly to destroy the railroad, but Sherman had Haupt and his crew of engineers, bridge builders and railway men repairing it almost as fast as Hood could destroy it.
Haupt had prefabricated everything and was ready for every conceivable contingency. Sherman needed 130,000 tons of supplies daily , and he had it and there was nothing Hood could do about it.

Late Tuesday I got on the two lane. All was ok until we got to Chinatown. The train stopped for 15 minutes and then all the passengers got off. The train headed for the barn and we were told there was a problem. After the train left a one line buzzed through, and we went to the Judson park and sat there for a long time. Then we went to the Mercer island stop where we waited some more.

Finally we were let through. I was sitting next to the window and I saw the commotion.

They were doing som repair on the track half way across the lake, in the rain. I felt sorry for the poor men doing the fix.

But I got to my stop where I made my connection. I might have been stuck with a Uber if my train got there 20 minutes later

I was watching a video where it was argued that Chattanooga was the most important single piece of real estate. It was the only east west rail hub which brought the groceries of the west to the armies of the east.

Knoxville was also important and Bragg had good reason to send Longstreet there beyond just getting rid of a troublesome subordinate. Knoxville was also on the only railway carrying food east.

But Chattanooga was more important because of the roads south to Georgia.