Smoked meat in war

[bluewhisper]

I was reading a Wikipedia page about Morgan's Raid into Indiana and Ohio, and found this bit:

On July 12, Morgan arrived in the town of Dupont, Indiana, where his men burned the town's storehouse and stole 2,000 smoked hams before riding out of town the next day. The hams were eventually discarded as they began to attract flies, leaving a trail of hams along the side of the road for the pursuing Union Army to follow.

 

[GaryHibbert]

Ha!!  That's funny.  Kinda like leaving a cookie trail.  I would have thought Morgan was smarter than that.

Gary

 

[bluewhisper]

I've heard that the routes of military campaigns by both the North and the South in Kentucky make no military sense at all until you overlay a map of the distillery locations.

 

[GaryHibbert]

 
I've heard that the routes of military campaigns by both the North and the South in Kentucky make no military sense at all until you overlay a map of the distillery locations.

Ha!! That got a big grin out of me

Gary

 

[bluewhisper]

Now Jackson had his acorns

And Grant his precious rye;

Teddy had his poisoned beef—

Worse you couldn’t buy.

The doughboy had his hardtack

Without the navy’s jam,

But armies on their stomachs move—

And this one moves on Spam.

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