Timeline for What would be the most effective role to place 150-300 modern soldiers in during the Civil War?
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| Oct 6, 2021 at 5:02 | comment | added | Ash | @Mark Okay, I'll take your word for it, what I know only comes from seeing battle reenactments, military history that recent, and in a country as irrelevant as the US, is one of my "skimmed it when I was bored" fields. | |
| Oct 5, 2021 at 21:00 | comment | added | Mark | @Ash, "standing soldiers on open fields" went by the wayside less than a year into the Civil War -- General Lee may have gotten the nickname "King of Spades" as mockery of his trenches around Richmond early in the war, but it stuck because the Army of Northern Virginia had a habit of digging field fortifications given the least chance. Compact formations stuck around longer because until you invent the magazine-loading rifle, you need dense formations to stop cavalry charges. | |
| Oct 5, 2021 at 7:20 | comment | added | Alexander | @Ash So, what advantage would civil war era soldiers have if they are trained by modern soldiers? | |
| Oct 5, 2021 at 5:23 | history | edited | Ash | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 5, 2021 at 5:20 | comment | added | Ash | @Mark Impact detonated shells were still highly experimental, time fuses were already a mature, if still unreliable, technology from the age of sail. | |
| Oct 5, 2021 at 5:18 | comment | added | Ash | @Alexander The Civil War was largely fought by standing soldiers on open fields, even in cases of static defense, because it was the way infantry had fought when guns weren't a factor on the battle field it wasn't until after the mass casualties of the open battles of the First World War that the attitude that glorified "meeting the foe" went by the boards, and modern soldiers already have that advantage. | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 21:22 | comment | added | Mark | Mortars can be built with bronze-age metallurgy, but they're not very effective without explosive shells. During the American Civil War, shells were still very much an experimental technology. | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 18:02 | comment | added | Alexander | Modern training would not be such a big advantage. Any training is based on available equipment - both to you and your opponent. A lot of this training is based on availability of GPS, detailed maps, air support, motorized transport and such. Unless we are talking about Green Berets or or Navy SEALS, there is not so much they can teach in terms of stealth and survival. | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 1:03 | history | answered | Ash | CC BY-SA 4.0 |