Shock Troops of the Confederacy
Publisher: CFS Press
Published: February 15, 2006
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780964958555
Subjects: History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); Army; Civil War, 1861-1865; Confederate States of America; Regimental histories; Sharpshooters; United States - Civil War; Virginia, Northern; History / Military / United States; Technology / Military Science
First sentence: For two thousand years European infantry, from the Greek phalanx to the linear formations of the nineteenth century, fought virtually shoulder to shoulder in potent but rather ponderous formations that had to move slowly in order to maintain their alignment.