Gray Fox wrote:Thank you, however with apologies, your sources don't hold up.
actually they do. your the one using hunts number of pieces lost through being captured, rather than those lost for other reasons, rather a bad mistake. Almost as bad as not understanding counter batty fire as it relates to field combat in the wbts.
Field guides and books from half a century ago may have had information that an official institution, like the actual U.S. Artillery proponent, have corrected in the present.
fact free , you cannot correct the primary source material, by making it less detailed, you otoh have posted incorrect numbers and incorrect assumptions that your source in no way puts forward as having happened.
Further, I don't think that Lee would have told Pickett, "Our artillery have killed all of the horses for the Union guns. Your charge should have no problem."
a made up quote based on Lee being able to what he could not see does not help you.[quot]Lee's instruction for the Confederate artillery was to silence Union artillery and then support the attack. [/quote] correct. Standard military order and sound practice, if the guns are not silenced, the odds of a assault meeting success are greatly reduced.
This has the fatal military flaw of a split purpose.
wrong it is standard military directive, do this and then when it has been done do that, it's a conditional sequence of directives if the first is not achieved the second is not acted upon..
If I am ordered to take a hill on the east and a bridge to the west, I am most likely going to do one and fail at the other.
why so, you are to do one then the other, if the first fails, you do not proceed to the second.
Specifically, every round that doesn't attrit the enemy I am attacking directly, is wasted. I don't want a long term effect on enemy batteries, I want to crush their infantry and break through their lines.
try reading the art manuals of the day, or even an account of a battle, and you will find that arty is required by the manuals and general orders to silence Or drive off,enemy arty by counter batty fire in support of any attack, in defence it is to instead concentrate on infantry formations.
Then I can over run their guns before they can run.
odd you think men on foot can move faster than guns pulled by horses.
Both sides fired a combined total over 50,000 artillery rounds at Gettysburg. If the artillery were deadly accurate, the armies would have been annihilated. What little effect the guns have should be focused on one target to maximize the chaos this causes.
er batty were ordered to concentrate counter batty fire on one target batty at a time, the rest is just your wishful thinking rather than an accurate explanation of any engagement in the wbts, but is one of napoleonic wafare in Europe. Since cs fired just under 2 million rands of small arms, to us just over 3 million, coming out at 675 and 990 rands to achieve a kill, then arty fire was inaccurate but more cost effective in inflicting losses, and more accurate than the snipers you mentioned earlier. The OR contains a number of consolidated reports by commanding officers, one is rosecranes analysis of stones river, his forces inflicted a casualty for every 27 arty ends expended, and one inflicted for every 145 small arms expended,