
The Civil War In Four Minutes: Infantry Tactics
In the twenty-first century, it can be difficult to understand why Civil War armies formed in lines, moved across open ground under rifle and artillery fire, to face a mass of enemy soldiers also formed in “line of battle.” While such tactics might seem counter-intuitive today, this was more method than madness, as historian Garry Adelman explains in this video, part of the American Battlefield Trust’s In4 series.