Gateway to Victory
by
Don Stivers

(November 1863) Cutting local timber and building a flat-bottomed, steam powered barge christened the "Chattanooga," Brig. Gen. (Bvt.) William G. Le Duc, Assistant Quartermaster to Grant's forces, ran the treacherous, stormy Tennessee River at night to deliver 40,000 rations and 39,000 pounds of forage for animals-the first of many deliveries-to Kelly's Ferry within five miles of the starving Union soldiers, the word went through the camps like wildfire, the men shouting to one another as if a victory had been won: "The Cracker line is open. Full rations, boys! Three cheers for the Cracker line". Indeed it was a victory-and the U.S. Army Quartermasters had won it.

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