My understanding (which could be wrong) is that armies in the U.S. civil war were "bloody" in the sense that soldiers did not retreat or were sent directly into fire, until one side was wiped out. If I'm wrong about that please correct me. I'm just curious why the North and South didn't use guerrilla fighting techniques, by which I mean taking cover, spreading out, etc. if these techniques were helpful in the Revolutionary War. It might be that my understanding of battle history is wrong, but...| Recent Questions - History Stack Exchange
Winston Churchill wrote four books on history. I have not read them, but I have heard that in them he says that the US civil war was not about slavery. I do not have a reputable source for the "I heard". That is why I put as the first option in the last paragraph "Am I misinformed of the content of his books?". A google gets this non-professional book review: What I do have a problem with is how he approaches the Civil War. Churchill falls into the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, hook, line, a...| Recent Questions - History Stack Exchange