General Music Chat

History blurb Texas friends:

Sept 17 1862 was a rough day for the 1st Texas Regiment at Antietam / Sharpsburg.

They were nearly wiped out and lost their colors (flag). Normally that is considered a disgrace but these boys were so brave they didn't give up their flag - they died around it.

General Lee noted that personally.

Talbot

My father is fond of saying that

There is a fine line between bravery and ... stupidity.

History blurb Texas friends:

Sept 17 1862 was a rough day for the 1st Texas Regiment at Antietam / Sharpsburg.

They were nearly wiped out and lost their colors (flag). Normally that is considered a disgrace but these boys were so brave they didn't give up their flag - they died around it.

General Lee noted that personally.

Talbot

That's why a LRRP team is ideal, very few stationary encounters.

You get to pick when you fight, not the other way around.

Never forget the "live to fight another day" part.

That's all well and good now days. But those boys were using weapons that only became tactically effective if they were massed. ANd if they massed, the men holding them were a nice fat target.

They weren't offered options to skeddadle. All though some always did.

In the end how you die matters. Live to fight another day? Yeah...but not always. Sometimes it is just that time.

Talbot

General Lee was an idiot.

Was reborn as a cool car, though.

General Lee was an idiot.

Was reborn as a cool car, though.

I as a life long study of the American Civil War totally disagree.
Lee was a masterful tactician caught in a rapidly changing technology of war.
If Grant had had the shortages of men and materials as Lee he'd still be on his knees in front of Lee.

And that's a really crappy way to paint a good car.

General Lee was an idiot.

Was reborn as a cool car, though.

And that's a really crappy way to paint a good car.

now that's the truth!

General Lee was an idiot.

Was reborn as a cool car, though.

I as a life long study of the American Civil War totally disagree.
Lee was a masterful tactician caught in a rapidly changing technology of war.
If Grant had had the shortages of men and materials as Lee he'd still be on his knees in front of Lee.

true, well except for pickets charge.
that was pretty stupid.

General Lee was an idiot.

Was reborn as a cool car, though.

I as a life long study of the American Civil War totally disagree.
Lee was a masterful tactician caught in a rapidly changing technology of war.
If Grant had had the shortages of men and materials as Lee he'd still be on his knees in front of Lee.

And that's a really crappy way to paint a good car.

Uhh... Pickets Charge?
'Stupid'
Longstreet told him repeatedly, "Uh, dude... that's a bad idea... Here let's do it this way... it will force them to take their men off of the ridge and come to us."

Then he made Longstreet give the order anyways - which he wouldn't do.

Much of American Civil War tactic was based on knowledge of the weaponry of the Napoleonic era.
Where massed attack and volley small arms fire were required to gain advantage.

The rifled musket firing a .69 caliber conical slug and reliably ignited by the relatively new percussion cap technology, was by far and away a much more deadly accurate arm, as was the development of cartridge fed repeating arms. The first use of telescopic sights by snipers. Colt, Remington, Mason Richards, LeMatt as well as other produced revolving cylinder rifles and handguns.
Cannon & mortar rounds had also developed beyond the known killing capacity of previous munitions with explosive shells, grape canisters and the utilization of Rifled artillery pieces was wide spread.
The kill ratio was staggering.
This all spawned, late in the war, the trench style of warfare which lasted pretty much unchanged throughout WWI.

And that's a really crappy way to paint a good car.

Now that's more like it.