Pickett’s Charge—a stunning blunder. Longstreet knew it was suicide; he literally could not speak when he gave the signal.https://twitter.com/Vermeullarmine/status/1051268833594535936 …
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I had forgotten what he did. The Colonel Henderson biography of Jackson was a standard historical text for British officers pre-WW1.
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It’s my understanding that military academies still teach his tactics in the Valley Campsign of 1862,
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Jackson's use of terrain and maneuver was masterful. He too was often sloppy, but he bestowed a purpose onto his forces which created moral & tactical cohesion. The Prussians called it Auftragstaktik.
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