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properly utilized by the Confederacy at any time and became 
nil after the fall of Vicksburg. With the fall of such railway 
centers as Chattanooga and Atlanta, other parts of its terri- 
tory were made useless, and yet as late as February, 1865, 
when Lee’s army was starving, Joseph E. Johnston estimated 
that there were more than four months’ rations for 60,000 
men in the railway depots between Charlotte, Danville, and 
Weldon, inclusive, but it was impossible to transport the food 
to Richmond because the rolling stock and other equipment 
of the railroads had deteriorated so badly.*® The lack of 
adequate transportation facilities was thus an important 
factor in the loss of the war by the South. 
Johnston, Narrative and Military Operations during the Late War between the 
States, 375. . 
