If say sometime after 1870 a Prussian army (German) met in the field a similar army from the American civil war (either from the north or
from the south or even a combined army)...what would the tactics
be... similar? A one sided clash?
Who would have stood on the field triumphant at the end of the day?
If say sometime after 1870 a Prussian army (German) met in the field a similar army from the American civil war (either from the north or
from the south or even a combined army)...what would the tactics
be... similar? A one sided clash?
Who would have stood on the field triumphant at the end of the day?
On 7/20/2020 12:41 PM, alo wrote:help.
If say sometime after 1870 a Prussian army (German) met in the field a
similar army from the American civil war (either from the north or
from the south or even a combined army)...what would the tactics
be... similar? A one sided clash?
Who would have stood on the field triumphant at the end of the day?
I'm not sure if the field artillery is that different due to the 5-year difference or not, but the Union Army fielded almost no breechloading
rifles and yet still put more in the field than the various States of
the Confederacy (also, and this is very important, THE ENTIRETY OF NORTH AMERICA WAS STILL A BACKWATER AND MOST OF EUROPE WOULD HAVE SEEN
AMERICAN TACTICS AS INFERIOR TO EUROPEAN ONES).
The North German Confederation (or by some arguments already the German Empire) won the Franco-Prussian War despite having the /inferior/ small
arms (the Chassepot far outranged the Dreyse and matched in rate of
fire, so unless the American artillery is vastly superior...
...
...can you say "curb-stomp"?
OTOH, the last ACW battles had deteriorated into Great War-style trench warfare, so that /might/ make up for the lack in rate-of-fire. Neither
side should be fielding too many of the automatic firearms that make crossing no-man's-land somewhat workable either--the Gatling Gun
/EXISTS/ but isn't being fielded enough for the Americans, the Germans
have nothing of the sort even held back in reserve--
--but I still hold that the Germans/Prussians/North Germans, whichever
you want to call them; would have DESTROYED an ACW-era American army and that even a clash between the post-reconstruction Americans and the
German Empire would have been ugly for the Yanks without Anglo-French
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