Sponsored by Amtrak and Susquehanna Bank, Box Car War: Logistics of the Civil War will examine the tremendous efforts of Union and Confederate forces to supply and maintain their armies in the field. The exhibit will follow the process of raising massive wartime armies from small peacetime militia, the administrative burden of mustering in soldiers, as well as the process of providing orders on each level of the armies and navies from companies to corps, and from ship to fleet. What it took to keep these armies in the field and navies on the sea will be discussed, as we look at the supply chain: from the need, ordering, manufacturing, delivery, requisition, and issuing.

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