CSPAN3 Lectures In History June 8, 2014
Focus, moving back to the individual soldiers. Lets start with an image we have seen here for a couple times. This is an artist rendition of one of the charges made by the army of the potomac at the 1862 battle of fredericksburg. Wall, top, that low stone and a density of confederate soldiers because the frontage is so limited, they are stacked 6, 7, 8 deep. People in the back are low handing up loaded weapons. They are able to generate a volume of fire comparable to a gun. War i machine more than 10 separate charges try to go up the hill. Remember, by the seventh or eighth charge, the Wounded...