[.cnI redruM]

For an interesting and (as a Southern Boy) a very depressing book about Confederate military tactics read Attack and Die : Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage by Grady McWhiney (Paperback)


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/103-2194213-4231010

[Enterprise]

I thought the North won the war because their generals had better whiskey and cigars.

[attiladhun2]

Neither side was particularly creative in battlefield tactics. The North won the war because it employed a successful grand strategy, secondarily because of material. One cannot ignore the moral question raised about slavery, either.