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Browsing named entities in a specific section of The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 5: Forts and Artillery. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller). Search the whole document.
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United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 3
Preface
It was not a mere sneer that described Napoleon as only an artillery officer.
His method of massing great guns was almost unknown in America when the Civil War opened; the Confederates, to their cost, let two years go by before organizing so as to allow of quick artillery concentration; yet what else could have won Gettysburg for the Federals?
Proper defense against cannon was even less understood until the Civil War.
If Louis Xiv's military engineer Vauban had come to life during any battle or siege that followed his death up to 1861, he could easily have directed the operations of the most advanced army engineers — whose fortifications, indeed, he would have found constructed on conventional lines according to his own text-books.
Thus the gunner in Blue or Gray, and his comrade the engineer, were forced not only to fight and dig but to evolve new theories and practices.
No single work existed to inform the editors of this History systematically concerning th
Morris Island (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
Gettysburg (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
Preface
It was not a mere sneer that described Napoleon as only an artillery officer.
His method of massing great guns was almost unknown in America when the Civil War opened; the Confederates, to their cost, let two years go by before organizing so as to allow of quick artillery concentration; yet what else could have won Gettysburg for the Federals?
Proper defense against cannon was even less understood until the Civil War.
If Louis Xiv's military engineer Vauban had come to life during any battle or siege that followed his death up to 1861, he could easily have directed the operations of the most advanced army engineers — whose fortifications, indeed, he would have found constructed on conventional lines according to his own text-books.
Thus the gunner in Blue or Gray, and his comrade the engineer, were forced not only to fight and dig but to evolve new theories and practices.
No single work existed to inform the editors of this History systematically concerning tha
Gray (search for this): chapter 3
Vauban (search for this): chapter 3
Preface
It was not a mere sneer that described Napoleon as only an artillery officer.
His method of massing great guns was almost unknown in America when the Civil War opened; the Confederates, to their cost, let two years go by before organizing so as to allow of quick artillery concentration; yet what else could have won Gettysburg for the Federals?
Proper defense against cannon was even less understood until the Civil War.
If Louis Xiv's military engineer Vauban had come to life during any battle or siege that followed his death up to 1861, he could easily have directed the operations of the most advanced army engineers — whose fortifications, indeed, he would have found constructed on conventional lines according to his own text-books.
Thus the gunner in Blue or Gray, and his comrade the engineer, were forced not only to fight and dig but to evolve new theories and practices.
No single work existed to inform the editors of this History systematically concerning tha
Napoleon (search for this): chapter 3
Preface
It was not a mere sneer that described Napoleon as only an artillery officer.
His method of massing great guns was almost unknown in America when the Civil War opened; the Confederates, to their cost, let two years go by before organizing so as to allow of quick artillery concentration; yet what else could have won Gettysburg for the Federals?
Proper defense against cannon was even less understood until the Civil War.
If Louis Xiv's military engineer Vauban had come to life during any battle or siege that followed his death up to 1861, he could easily have directed the operations of the most advanced army engineers — whose fortifications, indeed, he would have found constructed on conventional lines according to his own text-books.
Thus the gunner in Blue or Gray, and his comrade the engineer, were forced not only to fight and dig but to evolve new theories and practices.
No single work existed to inform the editors of this History systematically concerning tha
1861 AD (search for this): chapter 3
1865 AD (search for this): chapter 3