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Civil War Infantry Tactics Richard Cork and Visionaries of the GreatFor decades, military historians have argued that the introduction of the rifle musket with a range five times longer than that of the smoothbore musket made the shoulder to shoulder formations of linear tactics obsolete. Author Earl J. Hess challenges this deeply entrenched assumption. He contends that long range rifle fire did not dominate Civil War battlefields or dramatically alter the course of the conflict because soldiers had neither the