Status Updates From Gettysburg: The Last Invasion

The commander of the Army of Northern Virginia never aspired to be an innovator (unlike the man to whom he would eventually surrender, Ulysses
S. Grant, who understood that "War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive"). Whenever Robert E. Lee found a tactical trick that worked, he liked to keep using it until it broke.

The Minié rifle musket system had actually made its debut in the Crimea in 1854 in the form of both the Minié rifle and its British-made counterpart, the Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle musket, and from there, the rifle musket become the weapon of choice for both the British infantry in the Indian Mutiny in 1857 and the French and Austrian infantry in the North Italian War in 1859

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