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The Freeblowback. Show. Hey, everyone. Thanks for tuning into episode 507 of our Civil War podcast. My name is Rich.

And I'm Tracy. Hello, y'all. Welcome to the podcast. As y'all will recall, we talked about logistics in the last episode and highlighted the importance of the Western and Atlantic Railroad in that regard,

both in terms of supply and also in connection with strategy.

With this show, we'll talk about the two armies in a bit more detail.

The 100,000-man force that William Tecumseus Sherman labored so hard and so successfully to feed and supply,

lay in winter camps scattered across the region from the Tennessee State Capitol of Nashville,

south to Chattanooga, and over to northern Alabama and into northwestern Georgia,

and eastward from Nashville to Knoxville.

Those men in three armies, acting more or less independently, were the forces that had

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