Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics: For Exercise and Manoeuvres of Troops When Acting as Light Infantry or Riflemen

by William Joseph Hardee

Excerpt from Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics: For Exercise and Manoeuvres of Troops When Acting as Light Infantry or Riflemen

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Genres: History, Civil War

204 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

General William Joseph Hardee was a career army officer, serving in the U.S. Army during the Second Seminole War and the Mexican-American War, and as a general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, opposing Sherman in Georgia. Hardee's writings about military tactics were widely used on both sides of the conflict.

Reviews

[Victoria Tyrrell · Rating 5 out of 5]

He's one of my ancestors... so I had to give his work 5 stars!

[Thomas Warger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Essential for Civil War buffs.