Battle Tactics of the American Civil War - Tapa blanda

"Provides a fresh and provocative appraisal of the [Civil] War... An essential read for anyone interested in the subject." Military Illustrated; "A prize. One gets a real feeling of how nineteenth-century battle worked." Paul A. Koch The Courier."

This volume reappraises the events, the weapons used, the men of the novice armies, their leaders and the strategies employed in the Civil War - which was fought with a new generation of weapons and trench systems similar to those of World War I. The author argues that the conditions of combat were little changed from those of earlier times and far from being the birthplace of modern battlefield tactics, the Civil War was in reality the last Napoleonic-style war.