Combat Reconsidered: A Statistical Analysis of Small-Unit Actions During the American Civil War
Description:
Historians often emphasize the physical features of battleterrain, weaponry, troop formations, earthworks, etc.in assessments of Civil War combat. Most scholars agree that these external combat conditions strongly influenced battle performance. Other historians accentuate the ways in which the mental stresses of soldiering affected combat performance. These scholars tend to agree that fighting effectiveness was influenced by such non-physical combat conditions as unit cohesion, leadership, mora…
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Date:
December 2001
Creator:
Barloon, Mark C.
Partner:
UNT Libraries