Battle Of Pickett's Mill, Ga

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http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/picketts-mill/the-crime-at-picketts-mill.html

 

Very interesting thought from the author. I suppose that's why we have sand maps now:

 

"It is seldom, indeed, that a subordinate officer knows anything about the disposition of the enemy’s forces—except that it is unaimable—or precisely whom he is fighting. As to the rank and file, they can know nothing more of the matter than the arms they carry. They hardly know what troops are upon their own right or left the length of a regiment away. If it is a cloudy day they are ignorant even of the points of the compass. It may be said, generally, that a soldier’s knowledge of what is going on about him is coterminous with his official relation to it and his personal connection with it; what is going on in front of him he does not know at all until he learns it afterward."