
Recollections of a Civil War Quartermaster
The Autobiography of William G. Le Duc
- 183 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Concerned with the logistical details of supplying the Army of the Potomac as it bogged down during the Peninsula campaign or of commandeering a steamboat to relieve the siege and get food to stranded soldiers at Chattanooga, Le Duc tells his story of mud-choked roads, incompetent commanders, and what he understands as the crucial factor necessary for the Union's success in battle: a well-supplied army. Through his close association with Generals McClellan and Meade, Hooker and Sherman, Le Duc learned to master the army's bureaucracy and overcome the hardships of trying to keep Union supplies on the move. His compelling memoir is unique in depicting the details of life in the Quartermaster Department."This is one of the best surviving sources on how the Union supplied its troops during the Civil War. Le Duc's lively memoir details operations of several western armies, and his friendship with General W. T. Sherman reveals much about living off the enemy's country and Atlanta's fall." — Frank E. Vandiver, author of 1001 Things Everyone Should Know about the Civil War and Civil War Battlefields and Landmarks-Print ed.
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- Foreword
- I-Family Matters
- II-Growing Up in Ohio
- III-Farming and College
- IV-Frontier Travel and Henry Clay
- V-Westward to Minnesota Territory
- VI-The Crystal Palace Exhibition
- VII-Indian Trouble in St. Paul
- VIII-Railroads and Land
- IX-Preparations for War
- X-The Chickahominy Campaign
- XI-The Life of a Quartermaster
- XII-Retreat with the Army of the Potomac
- XIII-With the Eleventh Corps
- XIV-At Bridgeport
- XV-With General Hooker
- XVI-On to Atlanta
- XVII-The Beginning of the End
- XVIII-A Western Trip
- XIX-At Brainerd, Minnesota
- XX-Commissioner of Agriculture
- XXI-At Work as Commissioner