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Infantry tactics in the Civil War had been developed around the use of the smoothbore musket, an inherently inaccurate weapon which (when combined with poor training and the general excitability of battle) was only effective at ranges of forty to sixty yards.
Civil War and Reconstruction. Strategy: Definitions, Theory, and Practice. The challenge of linking theory with practice looms over the question of military strategy during the Civil War.
Infantry Tactics During the Civil War. Historian Garry Adelman explains why soldiers fought in “line of battle.”. This video is part of the American Battlefield Trust's In4 video series, which presents short videos on basic Civil War topics.
During the Civil War, as in many conflicts pre-dating World War I, a method of differentiating the levels of war—tactical, operational, and strategic—did not exist in the manner in which we understand it today.
11 Οκτ 2019 · Most Civil War leaders only looked at the prospective battle (tactical issues), not at how each individual engagement fitted into a campaign (the operational level of war), and how this related to the nation’s military strategy (the methods for prosecuting it).
While it is true that the American Civil War was largely a fight between two forces of infantry, it was not always and evaluating tactics in an infantry vacuum ignores the decisive role of artillery and cavalry in battles like Malvern Hill and Cedar Creek.
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
