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.