Attack and Die

Civil War Military Tactics

And the Southern Heritage

By Grady McWhitney and Perry D. Jamieson.

209 Pages, 40 photographs

Copyright 1982, by Alabama Press

  

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 Green cloth hardcover with gold lettering

Binding tight, pages clean and crisp.

Book in like new condition; dust jacket Good, with some wrinkles

Mylar cover added

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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 weapon - the rifle - had given increased strength to defenders. This book describes tactical theory in the 1850s and suggests how each related to Civil War tactics. It also considers the development of tactics in all three arms of the service during the Civil War.