Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage Civil War Campaigns & Battlefields History Drawing on untapped Russian and

Drawing on untapped Russian and Ottoman as well as European sources

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ISBN13: 9780312597139 ISBN10: 0312597134 Material Type: paperback

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Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage Civil War Campaigns & Battlefields History Drawing on untapped Russian andDescribes tactical theory in the 1850s and suggests how each related to Civil War tactics Why did the Confederacy lose so many men? The authors contend that the Confederates bled themselves nearly to death in the first three years of the war by making costly attacks more often than the Federals. Offensive tactics, which had been used successfully by Americans in the Mexican War, were much less effective in the 1860s because an improved weaponthe