Attack
Published in University of North Carolina Press eBooks • Mar 18, 2002
NobleIDNI7P59W48R33S97
Authors:
George C. Rabie
Abstract
Abstract This chapter describes the engagement between the Federals and Confederates. The use of conventional assault tactics against well-protected infantry and massed artillery was staggering. Yet both armies had not yet recognized the importance of field entrenchments or the necessity of flanking...