 Complete the following phrase:  Much like the Continental Army in the American Revolution, state governments were supposed to supply their soldiers. The supply situation for most Confederate Armies was dismal even when victorious. The lack of central authority and effective transportation infrastructure, especially the railroads, combined the frequent unwillingness or inability of Southern state governments to provide adequate funding, were key factors in the Armys demise. Individual commanders had to beg, borrow or steal food and ammunition from whatever sources were available, including captured Union depots and encampments, and private citizens regardless of their loyalties. Lees campaign against Gettysburg and southern Pennsylvania a rich agricultural region was driven in part by his desperate need of supplies, namely food. Not surprisingly, in addition to slowing the Confederate advance such foraging aroused anger in the North and led many Northerners to support General Shermans total warfare tactics as retaliation. Scorched earth policies especially in Georgia, South Carolina and the Virginian Shedoah Valley proved far more devastating than anything Pennsylvania had suffered and further reduced the capacity of the increasingly effectively 