"Half-starved, their teams grew weaker and weaker while the roads grew worse, and so the loads that could be carried kept growing smaller. Grant later told Halleck that the incredible number of 10,000 animals had perished on this road; the troops were on half-rations, and it was perfectly clear that when winter came the road could hardly be used at all."
- From Grant Takes Command by Bruce Catton regarding the efforts to supply Federal troops that were trapped by Confederate forces
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