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When discussing tactics one needs to look not just at what pundits are saying now but what the people who actually practiced them said about it. I came across an excellent description of the failure of the column attacks at Kennesaw Mountain by someone who was there, Maj. Gen. Jacob Cox, who commanded a division […]
General Jacob Cox on Assault Tactics
July 16th, 2013 · No Comments
Categories: Arms & Armament · Military History · Strategy & Tactics · Western Theater
Tags: · atlanta campaign, column attack, Jacob Cox
William Holden at Corinth
July 22nd, 2012 · 2 Comments
I have posted two of Iowa soldier William Holden letters before, one at the end of the war and one from Atlanta. This one is a detailed description of the Second Battle of Corinth fought on October 3-4, 1862 at Corinth, MS between the Confederates under generals Earl Van Dorn and Sterling Price, and the […]
Categories: Arms & Armament · Civil War Individuals · Letters · Military History · Strategy & Tactics
Tags: · 2nd Iowa, battle of corinth, column attack, earl van dorn, William Holden, William Rosecrans
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