Another thing to add to this pile is railroads. The South had different railroad companies in each state with their own proprietary rail sizes. So trains couldn’t go straight from Texas to Georgia. They had to load and unload all of their cargo/people whenever they crossed into a new rail company’s territory. Union railroads were built on a standard, so any company could make non-stop trips from Maine all the way to the Virginia border.
When the war was underway, the South took longer to move from one area to another when the North commandeered railroads for wartime. Just absolute buffoonery that was only fixed after the war because Sherman destroyed Confederate rails while rampaging across the South.
Another thing to add to this pile is railroads. The South had different railroad companies in each state with their own proprietary rail sizes. So trains couldn’t go straight from Texas to Georgia. They had to load and unload all of their cargo/people whenever they crossed into a new rail company’s territory. Union railroads were built on a standard, so any company could make non-stop trips from Maine all the way to the Virginia border.
When the war was underway, the South took longer to move from one area to another when the North commandeered railroads for wartime. Just absolute buffoonery that was only fixed after the war because Sherman destroyed Confederate rails while rampaging across the South.