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In this work, author Perry D. Jamieson takes a look at the battle tactics deployed by the United States Army during the latter half of the 19th century. Weapons improved rapidly after the Civil War, raising difficult strategical questions in the field of battle. 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.

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"No other study approaches this subject so expertly. - Journal of Southern History; """"Jamieson fills a gap in the tactical history of the U.S.Army from the end of the Civil War through the Spanish-American War. He unfolds how an army spread out on frontier posts, [and] largely preoccupied with warfare against the native peoples, Reconstruction, and daily routine, nevertheless made progress toward a system of tactics to take it into the twentieth century."""" - Civil War History"

No other study approaches this subject so expertly. - Journal of Southern History; Jamieson fills a gap in the tactical history of the U.S.Army from the end of the Civil War through the Spanish-American War. He unfolds how an army spread out on frontier posts, [and] largely preoccupied with warfare against the native peoples, Reconstruction, and daily routine, nevertheless made progress toward a system of tactics to take it into the twentieth century. - Civil War History

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Perry D. Jamieson is a historian for the United States Air Force. He is the coauthor, with Grady McWhiney, of Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage.

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