Terrible Swift Sword by Joseph Wheelan

Author:Joseph Wheelan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2012-09-02T21:00:00+00:00

BUT WHEN THE CONFEDERATES reached Amelia Court House on April 4, the promised rations were not there. Instead of food, the Rebels found boxcars filled with caissons, crates of ammunition, and harnesses. What happened to Lee’s order and the rations has never been explained.

Lee sent foragers throughout the boggy countryside to find food. The need for it was now so acute as to eclipse military priorities. He was waiting, too, for Ewell, whose troops had been delayed in crossing the Appomattox River.

Lee’s one-day lead over his pursuers evaporated as his foragers gathered what scanty supplies they could for the 45,000 Rebel soldiers gathering at Amelia from Petersburg and Richmond. “The delay was fatal,” Lee later acknowledged, “and could not be retrieved.”7

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