![]() That’s part of why it’s such a resource hog, because it’s doing a lot of thinking about things and checking things and looking around. ![]() was really designed to react to some extent unpredictably, and to react dynamically to what’s happening. You had to know how to go from one formation to any other formation, and how to get there without ending up in a big rugby scrum in the middle of the field, which certainly happened a lot with green units. That’s how you win battles, being drilled to that level of being able to do it without thinking about it, because you’ve got enough to do with loading and firing and filling in the gaps as casualties are taken. When the colonel says wheel left, the feet need to do it without thinking. It had to be learned to the point of being spinal reflex, because you had to do it on the battlefield when all hell’s breaking loose around you and artillery’s going off and people are getting shot and there’s noise and smoke and chaos. JW: The average infantry unit would drill, weather permitting, four hours a day, every day, because the drill was so complex. ![]() Did these guys back in the day really have all that stuff down pat? I mean, you’ve got three hundred pages devoted exclusively to complex formation drilling. GO: I picked one up at First Manassas and thumbed through it. ![]()
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