I'm re-watching Ken Burns' "Civil War".
We all know the fact that at the time of the Civil War, the weapons had outpaced the tactics, and the rifled musket had invalidated the old horse & musket "close, line up and fire" tactics but that "the generals" didn't know it yet.
My question is this: What if someone had figured it out? What could they do with the men and weapons of the time? How much change, and of what kinds, was necessary, or possible, or plausible, given the rest of the facts of the era?
So, assuming you were shot back in time and had the ear of Grant, or Lee, or Sherman, or Longstreet, or Hill or Burnside, what would you teach them to change the way they fought, tactically?
I'm just plain curious.
-dale
We all know the fact that at the time of the Civil War, the weapons had outpaced the tactics, and the rifled musket had invalidated the old horse & musket "close, line up and fire" tactics but that "the generals" didn't know it yet.
My question is this: What if someone had figured it out? What could they do with the men and weapons of the time? How much change, and of what kinds, was necessary, or possible, or plausible, given the rest of the facts of the era?
So, assuming you were shot back in time and had the ear of Grant, or Lee, or Sherman, or Longstreet, or Hill or Burnside, what would you teach them to change the way they fought, tactically?
I'm just plain curious.
-dale
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