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Failure to Pursue - How the Escape of Defeated Forces Prolonged the Civil War (Paperback)
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Failure to Pursue - How the Escape of Defeated Forces Prolonged the Civil War (Paperback)
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Was the Civil War preordained to last four years or were there
reasons why neither side could land a knockout punch? From the
outset, both North and South anticipated a brief conflict but
despite more than 50 bloody battles neither could force a decisive
conclusion. For most of the war, these battles followed a pattern:
the victors claimed the field and the vanquished retreated to rest,
resupply and fight another day.Some generals began to realize that
pursuit to capture or destroy the retreating enemy was needed to
end the war. Yet this was easier said than done. Taking a fresh
look at the zero-sum tactics that characterized many major combat
actions in the war, this book examines the performance of
unsuccessful (sometimes insubordinate) commanders and credits two
generals with eventually seeing the need for organized pursuit.
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