Show RAILROADS IN WAR their possession the first objector object of every great modern campaign the first thing for a boy or m girl to remember in considering war is that soldiers must cat it is go generally supposed that the most soldier is to fight but this is a mistake lie iio must eat before lie can call fight and more battles have been lost because commanders could not feed their ar armies inies than because they could not light fight the enemy the control of ofilio tile railroads is the object of every great reat campaign in modern war whoever holds the railroads can move troops and ammunition and food to tile the important point more quickly than the enemy and every thing depends upon b eing being stronger than llian your enemy at the important point one man is nearly early as good as another man inan atlease at least on the average ten thousand hien of one nation are nearly sure to be worth ten thousand of another and certainly in ill the great b reat american anderic Ani eric tit war where all of tile the men were of the same nation there was little difference in tile the fighting quality of the opposing forces one side had more dash the other more endurance one perhaps went into battle more furiously the other I 1 should say held out more stubbornly but in tho the end the men on one side were about as ec good r lod for fi fighting biting purposes as those on tho e other whoever who oever had most men inen therefore was most likely to win but they must be equipped and fed to have more men that you can call feed is worse than not having enough adam badeau in st nicholas |