| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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"The Supply for Tomorrow Must Not Fail": The Civil War of Captain Simon Perkins Jr., a Union Quartermaster. By Lenette S. Taylor. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2004. xvi, 264 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-87338-783-X.)
Dr. Lenette S. Taylor's "The Supply for Tomorrow Must Not Fail," a biography of quartermaster Simon Perkins Jr., is a valuable addition to the scant literature on the Union army's logistics in the Civil War. Written principally from Perkins's manuscripts, standard sources, and government documents, the book carefully describes western front logistics from the vantage point of a midlevel manager.	1
Perkins, a son of John Brown's business partner, was trained in business by his uncle David Tod, the Civil War governor of Ohio. After service in West Virginia, in 1861 the twenty-three-year-old Perkins became a quartermaster captain and served successively in Tennessee as a forage master, a transportation officer, a headquarters quartermaster, and depot quartermaster at Nashville.	. . .

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