@article{1387852,
      recid = {1387852},
      author = {McWhiney, Grady. and Jamieson, Perry D.},
      title = {Attack and die : Civil War military tactics and the  Southern heritage /},
      publisher = {University of Alabama Press,},
      address = {Tuscaloosa, Ala. :},
      pages = {xv, 209 pages :},
      year = {1982},
      abstract = {Why did the Confederacy lose so many men? The authors  contend that the Confederates bled themselves nearly to  death in the first three years of the war by undertaking  costly attacks. Offensive tactics, which had been used  successfully by Americans in the Mexican War, were much  less effective in the 1860s because an improved weapon--the  rifle--had given increased strength to the defenders.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1387852},
}