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Every major battle of the war took place very near to a railroad or a navigable waterway. One or the other was necessary for a means of getting supplies to the army. An army without a source of supplies had to stay on the move, robbing every farm it passed of all the food it could find. When stationary, without a source of supply, a Civil War army would "eat out he countryside" for miles around within a few days. Railroads also allowed for the rapid movement of troops, so they could be concentrated to attack where the enemy had few troops.

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