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Crossing the Deadly Ground
- United States Army Tactics, 1865-1899
- Narrated by: Roger Wood
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Crossing the Deadly Ground
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Summary
Weapons improved rapidly after the Civil War, raising difficult questions about the battle tactics employed by the United States Army. The most fundamental problem was the dominance of the tactical defensive, when defenders protected by fieldworks could deliver deadly fire from rifles and artillery against attackers advancing in close-ordered lines. The vulnerability of these offensive forces as they crossed the so-called "deadly ground" in front of defensive positions was even greater with the improvement of armaments after the Civil War.
©1994 The University of Alabama Press (P)2016 Redwood Audiobooks
Critic reviews
"No other study approaches this subject so expertly." ( Journal of Southern History)
"An excellent history of the period, one frequently neglected in the literature of the military history field." ( Academic Library Book Review)
"An informative and stimulating work that should serve as the definitive word on this subject for some time to come." ( Journal of Military History)