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Editor’s Note: After I’d posted my recent comments on Lee’s possible endorsement of John Bell Hood for army command in 1864, I started going back over a lengthy nine or ten part series I did on Eric Jacobson’s book For Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin. I had totally […]
The Top 13 Controversies at Franklin: Part 12
March 4th, 2014 · 1 Comment
Categories: 13 Controversies at Franklin · Civil War Books · Civil War Books - Authors · Controversies of a Campaign · Military History · Miscellaneous · Strategy & Tactics · Western Theater
Tags: · battle of franklin, david stanley, eric a. jacobson, for cause and for country, hood's tennessee campaign, Jacob Cox, the confederacy's last hurrah, wiley sword
General Jacob Cox on Assault Tactics
July 16th, 2013 · No Comments
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 […]
Categories: Arms & Armament · Military History · Strategy & Tactics · Western Theater
Tags: · atlanta campaign, column attack, Jacob Cox
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