Attack and Die:
Civil War (SIC) Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage
By Grady McWhiney, Perry D. Jamieson
List Price: $17.95
SHNV/SWR Price: $10.77
http://astore.amazon.com/souhernewvie-20/detail/0817302298
In examining the War the book separates Southern from Northern tactical practice and discusses Confederate military history in the context of Southern social history. Although the Southerners could have offset their numerical disadvantage by remaining on the defensive and forcing the Federals to attack, they failed to do so. The authors argue that the Southerners’ consistent favoring of offensive warfare was attributable, in large measure, to their Celtic heritage: they fought with the same courageous dash and reckless abandon that had characterized their Celtic forebears since ancient times. The Southerners of the Civil War (SIC) generation were prisoners of their social and cultural history: they attacked courageously and were killed – on battlefields so totally defended by the Federals that “not even a chicken could get through.”
Civil War (SIC) Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage
By Grady McWhiney, Perry D. Jamieson
List Price: $17.95
SHNV/SWR Price: $10.77
http://astore.amazon.com/souhernewvie-20/detail/0817302298
In examining the War the book separates Southern from Northern tactical practice and discusses Confederate military history in the context of Southern social history. Although the Southerners could have offset their numerical disadvantage by remaining on the defensive and forcing the Federals to attack, they failed to do so. The authors argue that the Southerners’ consistent favoring of offensive warfare was attributable, in large measure, to their Celtic heritage: they fought with the same courageous dash and reckless abandon that had characterized their Celtic forebears since ancient times. The Southerners of the Civil War (SIC) generation were prisoners of their social and cultural history: they attacked courageously and were killed – on battlefields so totally defended by the Federals that “not even a chicken could get through.”
