Excerpt from The Providence and the Man; Or Ulysses S. Grant, in the War of the Rebellion: A Compendium At the breaking out of the rebellion in this country, practically all supposable improvements in firearms had been affected; but during the entire war the armies were mainly devoid of two of the chief of these, the breech loading rifle and the magazine rifle; but with these exceptions, we employed all of the modern appliances of war, which by use in European campaigns had established their reputation for ...
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Excerpt from The Providence and the Man; Or Ulysses S. Grant, in the War of the Rebellion: A Compendium At the breaking out of the rebellion in this country, practically all supposable improvements in firearms had been affected; but during the entire war the armies were mainly devoid of two of the chief of these, the breech loading rifle and the magazine rifle; but with these exceptions, we employed all of the modern appliances of war, which by use in European campaigns had established their reputation for effectiveness and utility. But although we had the benefit of the experience of divers modern wars, in regard to rapid concentration by use of railroads, of hastily constructed earthworks, the arm of precision (the rifle), by means of the minie ball, the French tactics of celerity, the methods of clothing and subsisting armies, yet the war of the rebellion was so far unlike any that preceded it, in many of the main controlling conditions, that the genius and ability of leaders, in adapting their methods to existing conditions, was destined, as in so many earlier wars, to constitute the determining element of the great contest. A glance at the principal conditions under which the rebellion was to be subdued, shows the vast dissimilarity between the same and those dominating any previous war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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