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Danny, in that report on Arkansas roads I posted awhile back, it's interesting to note that the availability of forage was considered to be an important factor in assessing the military value of each road.

I was recently reading some reports from Headquarters 7th Army Corps (U.S. occupation force in Arkansas) in which the availability of forage was repeatedly brought up, dictating the size of mounted patrols which could be sent out to a specific area, and also whether the availability of forage could sustain a campaign at all. The need for frequent forage supply trains provided the Confederates with lots of targets -- which necessitated more mounted patrols -- which necessitated even more supply trains -- which provided more targets of opportunity -- ad nauseum.

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