Ulysses S Grant was a man who built himself from scratch to become the President of the USA twice. He was a man with a keen interest in the art of warfare including logistics distribution that helped during a war. He then served as a Colonel in the American Civil war, for the Union under Abraham Lincoln against the Confederates who were part of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in order to preserve slavery, states' rights, and political liberty.
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The American Civil War lasted four years from 1961 to 1965. The four-year war with 2.5 million people on each side, 50 major, and 5000 minor battles fought, ended with a total of 620,000 deaths and a lot of casualties. The nationwide war was a tough one and the numbers here say so.
A war that lasted four years could gladly make use of today's international logistics services for a continuous flow of goods to take care of the army’s war requirements. Grant was a man with a skill to deliver. He was the architect of the logistics distribution planning that catered to the needs of 2 million soldiers in the North that formed the Union under Abraham Lincoln.
Here are a few things listed below, that an army would need at war:
• Food
• Water
• Ammunition
• Salvage
• Health and Comfort items
• Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants
• Construction materials
• Health and Hygiene products
• Medical materials
• And all captured materials
These are just a few. Grant carefully planned the movement of fulfillment warehouses and logistics distribution with every proceeding of the army and the trucking services that helped carry heavy ammunition. This assisted the Union Army win over the Confederacy. To have designed the logistics distribution for a war so massive, he is the No. 1 logistician in history.
Grant's popularity as a Union War General made him the 18th President of America for the first time.
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