Dear Sir,

I credit Longstreet's lack of success during the Knoxville Campaign with the lack of support provided by Bragg who was the higher commander responsible for supporting Longstreet. Longstreet had to go looking for wagons from Johnston in Mississippi because the Army of Tennessee did not have any to provide. Still the eighty he received from Johnston were not enough. Remember when Longstreet showed up in September it was without wagons. He was not permitted to bring his organic equipment along to Tennessee because of the limitations of railcars. When Longstreet was moving toward Knoxville they got off the train in Sweetwater and had to go on foot the rest of the way. His tempo was slowed because they did not have wagons to use to properly forage or go back and forth from the railhead or mills in the area to resupply the troops.

Respectfully,

Gerald D. Hodge, Jr.
Niota, Tennessee
War Between the States Historian
Historian: 39th Georgia Infantry Regiment
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Author: "Substaining the Army of Tennessee in the Fall of 1863". "Chattanooga Regional Historical Journal, December 2002."