(June 23, 2015 at 11:35 am)Rhythm Wrote: The confederacy needed commanders, and without decent commanders it would have been butchery to an even greater extent.
Which is hard to imagine. Weapons grew more and more advanced within the 19th century, yet all the armies still employed nearly the same tactics as during the Napoleonic wars. It's not only the American Civil war, it's all the wars being fought at that time. Even in WWI, they still believed that blindly charging the enemy would get them anywhere.