The Artillery Service in the War of the Rebellion, 1861–65

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A Rediscovered History That Will Turn into Essential Reading for Civil War Studies

The Artillery Service in the War of the Rise up, 1861–65, is a comprehensive overview and analysis of the U.S. Army’s field artillery service in the Civil War’s principal battles, written by John C. Tidball, a distinguished artilleryman of the era. The overview, which seemed in the Journal of the Military Service Institution from 1891 to 1893, and nearly unattainable to find nowadays, examines the Army of the Potomac, including the battles of Fair Oaks, Gaines’s Mill, Mechanicsville, Malvern Hill, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; the Army of the Tennessee, including the battles of Stones River and Chickamauga, and the Army of the Ohio’s battle of Shiloh. Tidball, a decorated Civil War veteran and superintendent of artillery instruction for the army, expertly presents the war through an artilleryman’s eyes in explaining the organization, equipping, and manning of the artillery service. His analysis highlights how the mistaken use of artillery, tying batteries down to somewhat small infantry commands that diluted their firepower, seriously undermined the army’s effectiveness until reforms produced independent artillery commands that could properly mass artillery fire in battle.

The Artillery Service in the War of the Rebellion, edited by historian Lawrence M. Kaplan and presented here in one volume for the first time, includes additional material from an unpublished paper Tidball wrote in 1905 which comprises further insights into the artillery service, in addition to a general overview of the Petersburg campaign. A major new discovery in Civil War scholarship, The Artillery Service in the War of the Rise up contains essential information which will change earlier historical interpretations of key battles and will be essential reading for all those interested in the war or contemplating writing about it.

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