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To: Ilaine who wrote (53806)	10/22/2002 2:59:21 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi CobaltBlue; Re: "I think the facts you have marshalled to support your argument defeats it. The French (whom we were arguing about) did not fight until tattered, starved, weak, hungry, crumbled and disintegrated." No, the French fought until they ran out of ammunition. By contrast, the Confederates had plenty of ammunition, but no food. Logistics problems in warfare change over time. In 1865, the primary logistics problem was food. Troops used fairly small amounts of ammunition, as compared to food. So Lee's troops ran out of food first. By 1940, the situation had changed so that by then, troops used far more ammunition than food. The war was too short to starve troops in the field. But it wasn't so short as to run them out of ammunition. Without ammunition, soldiers surrender. The Confederates are no exception to this. -- Carl