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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Reunion of the Virginia division army of Northern Virginia Association (search)
as that epoch that blazed out in the history of all time, but no four years have ever produced such results, or made such impression on the art of war. The Confederate war-ship, Virginia (Merrimac), made a complete revolution in naval architecture and warfare. The Confederate torpedo service has made an entire change in the system of defence of water-ways. The Confederate cavalry raid has necessitated an alteration in the tactics, as well as the strategy of armies and Generals. Von Borcke told me that while Stuart's raid around McClellan was not regarded with respect by the Prussian Generals in the Prusso-Austrian campaign, of 1866, the principle of thus using cavalry was adopted in full by them in the Franco-Prussian campaign, of 1870, and that now Stuart was considered the first cavalry General of the century, as the campaigns of Lee and Jackson were the models taught from, in Continental Military Schools. While the civil war afforded many brilliant illustrations of ge