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To rearm, feed and fuel the advancing forces, military logisticians have built one of the longest, most sophisticated supply lines ever fielded in war. The respite focuses attention on the supply sergeants and logistics planners who deliver the ‘beans, bullets and black oil.’
Andrea Stone
, USA Today, 31 March 2003

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Quartermaster Historical Articles
(many more articles can be found in the QM Functional Area pages)

American Revolution
Nathanael Greene and the Supply of the Continental Army

Mexican War
The Quartermaster's Department in the Mexican War

Civil War
The Quartermaster's Department, 1861-1864

Lincoln & His Quartermaster General

Supplying Hell: The Campaign for Atlanta

The Little Steamboat that opened the "Cracker Line" 
The Story of the USS Chattanooga, a "home-made" steamboat built by the Quartermaster Department in October 1863 to carry supplies to General Grant's starving army at Chattanooga, Tennessee. 

City Point: The Tool That Gave General Grant Victory

World War I
Quartermaster Supply in the AEF, 1917-1918
Quartermaster Activities in France during World War I

Quartermaster Activities in World War I

World War II

Korea

Somalia

Desert Storm
14th Quartermaster Detachment
Unit suffered the greatest number of casualties of any allied unit during Operation Desert Storm due to a SCUD Missile attack on February 25, 1991

Other
Quartermaster Black History Resource Page

The Enchanted Forest
QM Support of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Looted Art Treasures Go Back to France
  Experiences of a QM officer detailed to pack and return art looted by the Nazis in WWII

Jeffersonville Quartermaster Intermediate Depot; History and Functions
By Lieut. Colonel C. S. HAMILTON, Q. M. C.
The Quartermaster Review - July-August 1927   

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