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Book Synopsis Wall Of Fire - The Rifle And Civil War Infantry Tactics by : Major Richard E. Kerr Jr.
Download or read book Wall Of Fire - The Rifle And Civil War Infantry Tactics written by Major Richard E. Kerr Jr. and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the effect the rifle had on infantry tactics during the Civil War. It traces the transition from smoothbore to rifle and the development of the Minie ball. The range and accuracy of various weapons are discussed and several tables illustrate the increased capabilities of the rifle. Tactics to exploit the new weapon are examined, primarily those of William Hardee. Using Hardee’s tactics as the standard rifle tactics before the war, the change in how infantry soldiers fought is documented with two battle analyses. The 1862 Maryland Campaign shows the start of tactical evolution as soldiers seek cover, expend large quantities of ammunition and are decisively engaged at greater distances. During the 1864 Wilderness-Spotsylvania battle, the concepts of fortification defense and skirmish offense take hold. Examining several current books that deal with the rifle and its effects, the thesis concludes that the rifle’s increased firepower was a major factor in the move away from Hardee’s formation tactics.
Book Synopsis Wall of Fire -- the Rifle and Civil War Infantry Tactics by : Richard E. Kerr (Jr)
Download or read book Wall of Fire -- the Rifle and Civil War Infantry Tactics written by Richard E. Kerr (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the effect the rifle had on infantry tactics during the Civil War. It traces the transition from smoothbore to rifle and the development of the Minie ball. The range and accuracy of various weapons are discussed and several tables illustrate the increased capabilities of the rifle. Tactics to exploit the new weapon are examined, primarily those of William Hardee. Using Hardee's tactics as the standard rifle tactics before the war, the change in how infantry soldiers fought is documented with two battle analyses. The 1862 Maryland Campaign shows the start of tactical evolution as soldiers seek cover, expend large quantities of ammunition and are decisively engaged at greater distances. During the 1864 Wilderness-Spotsylvania battle, the concepts of fortification defense and skirmish offense take hold. Examining several current books that deal with the rifle and its effects, the thesis concludes that the rifle's increased firepower was a major factor in the move away from Hardee's formation tactics.
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Download or read book Wall of Fire -- the Rifle and Civil War Infantry Tactics written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the effect the rifle had on infantry tactics during the Civil War. It traces the transition from smoothbore to rifle and the development of the Minie ball. The range and accuracy of various weapons are discussed and several tables illustrate the increased capabilities of the rifle. Tactics to exploit the new weapon are examined, primarily those of William Hardee. Using Hardee's tactics as the standard rifle tactics before the war, the change in how infantry soldiers fought is documented with two battle analyses. The 1862 Maryland Campaign shows the start of tactical evolution as soldiers seek cover, expend large quantities of ammunition and are decisively engaged at greater distances. During the 1864 Wilderness-Spotsylvania battle, the concepts of fortification defense and skirmish offense take hold. Examining several current books that deal with the rifle's increased firepower was a major factor in the move away from Hardee's formation tactics.
Download or read book Wall of Fire written by Richard E. Kerr and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Civil War Infantry Tactics by : Earl J. Hess
Download or read book Civil War Infantry Tactics written by Earl J. Hess and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, military historians have argued that the introduction of the rifle musket-with a range five times longer than that of the smoothbore musket-made the shoulder-to-shoulder formations of linear tactics obsolete. Author Earl J. Hess challenges this deeply entrenched assumption. He contends that long-range rifle fire did not dominate Civil War battlefields or dramatically alter the course of the conflict because soldiers had neither the training nor the desire to take advantage of the musket rifle's increased range. Drawing on the drill manuals available to officers and a close reading of battle reports, Civil War Infantry Tactics demonstrates that linear tactics provided the best formations and maneuvers to use with the single-shot musket, whether rifle or smoothbore. The linear system was far from an outdated relic that led to higher casualties and prolonged the war. Indeed, regimental officers on both sides of the conflict found the formations and maneuvers in use since the era of the French Revolution to be indispensable to the survival of their units on the battlefield. The training soldiers received in this system, combined with their extensive experience in combat, allowed small units a high level of articulation and effectiveness. Unlike much military history that focuses on grand strategies, Hess zeroes in on formations and maneuvers (or primary tactics), describing their purpose and usefulness in regimental case studies, and pinpointing which of them were favorites of unit commanders in the field. The Civil War was the last conflict in North America to see widespread use of the linear tactical system, and Hess convincingly argues that the war also saw the most effective tactical performance yet in America's short history.
Download or read book Manual of Arms written by W J Hardee and published by Leonaur Limited. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foot soldier during the American Civil War This book will be of particular interest to all those who study the American Civil War, since it details, using text and diagrams, the drills of the ordinary infantryman on both sides of the conflict. The book confines itself to the drills of the foot soldier, as they appear in the W J Hardee and Silas Casey texts. There are, to be clear, few differences between these drills, but this makes the book authentically useful from a Confederate and Union Army perspective, as these procedures were applied throughout the war. Containing illustrations original to each edition, this text has been enhanced by the inclusion of the management and cleaning guide for the 1863 pattern Springfield Rifle Musket which includes useful and interesting illustrations of the component parts of the weapon. This is a useful book for modellers, wargamers, reenactors, television and film companies, professional and amateur theatrical companies, and for parades and other events. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.
Book Synopsis Us Infantry Tactics 1861 by : By Authority the Secretary of War
Download or read book Us Infantry Tactics 1861 written by By Authority the Secretary of War and published by . This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 20 April 1861 the Civil War in the United States opened with the capture of Norfolk Navy Yard by the Confederate forces from the South, and the war raged for four more years, with, as usual, the greater number of casualties being among the infantry. Infantry battle tactics were determined at the time by the firearms with which they were issued, and the main infantry weapon was the Springfield rifle musket. This muzzle loaded weapon was slow to fire, and marginally accurate, even with the new Minie ball: this meant that the tactics on the field of battle were almost unchanged from those of the Napoleonic wars, fought fifty years previously. This book shows how such evolutions (they were little more than drills) at battalion level were adapted and used to enable commanders to deliver the weight of their firepower on to the enemy. All the prescribed manoeuvres could be practised on the drill square, so that once the men were in battle, all they had to do was obey orders, present their weapons and fire. Of course, all the drills in the world do not prevent panic, and records show that despite all the training, some men reloaded their weapons so many times without firing that the weapons were rendered useless. The book is extremely well illustrated with 67 plates of all the movements in plan form.
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Book Synopsis Review of Current Military Literature by :
Download or read book Review of Current Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Professional Journal of the United States Army by :
Download or read book Professional Journal of the United States Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction by : Sarah E. Chinn
Download or read book Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction written by Sarah E. Chinn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, hundreds of thousands of men were injured, and underwent amputation of hands, feet, limbs, fingers, and toes. As the war drew to a close, their disabled bodies came to represent the future of a nation that had been torn apart, and how it would be put back together again. In her authoritative and engagingly written new book, Sarah Chinn claims that amputation spoke both corporeally and metaphorically to radical white writers, ministers, and politicians about the need to attend to the losses of the Civil War by undertaking a real and actual Reconstruction that would make African Americans not just legal citizens but actual citizens of the United States. She traces this history, reviving little-known figures in the struggle for Black equality, and in so doing connecting the racial politics of 150 years ago with contemporary debates about justice and equity.
Book Synopsis Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics by : William Joseph Hardee
Download or read book Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics written by William Joseph Hardee and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hardee's Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics by : William Joseph Hardee
Download or read book Hardee's Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics written by William Joseph Hardee and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notes on the Evolution of Infantry Tactics by : Frederic Natusch Maude
Download or read book Notes on the Evolution of Infantry Tactics written by Frederic Natusch Maude and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Leadership In The Shenandoah Valley And North Africa: Historical Studies In Mission Command by : Major Colin P. Mahle
Download or read book Leadership In The Shenandoah Valley And North Africa: Historical Studies In Mission Command written by Major Colin P. Mahle and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mission command, as outlined in Army Doctrine Reference Publication (ADRP) 6-0, Mission Command, is the contemporary philosophy through which army commanders combine mission, intent, and subordinate initiative to win in unified land operations. Though not known to them as mission command, prominent leaders such as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and Major General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson used similar concepts. This study specifically examines how these leaders employed three of the six principles outlined in current mission command doctrine. They are: (1) build cohesive teams through mutual trust, (2) exercise disciplined initiative, and (3) provide a clear commander’s intent. Determining the methods that these commanders employed during their celebrated campaigns through the framework of mission command highlights characteristics that will benefit military leaders at all levels. The linkages between these historical campaigns and current mission command philosophy are the focus of this study.
Book Synopsis Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics by : William Joseph Hardee
Download or read book Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics written by William Joseph Hardee and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The 1863 US Infantry Tactics by : U.S. War Department
Download or read book The 1863 US Infantry Tactics written by U.S. War Department and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • The authorized book for the instruction, exercise, and maneuver of U.S. Infantry during the Civil War • Includes articles of war, an extensive dictionary of Civil War military terms, and sheet music for military bugle calls • A must-have book for historians, researchers, reenactors, and writers Written in 1861 at the direction of the War Department and copiously illustrated, this was the book used to train, lead, and maneuver U.S. Infantry units on Civil War battlefields. It contains the school of the soldier, the company, and battalion or fielded regiment, along with all-important instructions for skirmishers. Over 15 pages of field music, the articles of war in use at the time, and a dictionary of Civil War military terminology completes this extensive work.
