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W. T. Sherman
P. H. Sheridan
Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals

CHAPTER IV
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There was not at that time a single habitation, cultivated field, or herd of domestic animals, between Corpus Christi and Matamoras.

It was necessary, therefore, to have a wagon train sufficiently large to transport the camp and garrison equipage, officers' baggage, rations for the army, and part rations of grain for the artillery horses and all the animals taken from the north, where they had been accustomed to having their forage furnished them.

The army was but indifferently supplied with transportation.

Wagons and harness could easily be supplied from the north but mules and horses could not so readily be brought.

The American traders and Mexican smugglers came to the relief.


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