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In fairness, I think people thought the Eastern and Southern armies fought in a "civilized" manner. It's just that the Western armies and Western generals came
by bilbo0s 4y ago
In fairness, I think people thought the Eastern and Southern armies fought in a "civilized" manner.
It's just that the Western armies and Western generals came in, and they fought in a significantly different fashion. You can call the West of the Union more "modern". Or "pragmatic". Or maybe "barbaric" is the right word.
No one wanted to be seen as being "Barbaric". Except Western armies, who really didn't care what people thought about them. (At least, not as much as they cared about their orders.)
- pbhjpbhj 4y agoI just can't see how that can be true - 'we're going to murder you all, but we're going to do it with good manners because otherwise people will think we're bad'?? It seems way more likely to be 'cargo cult' type learning where something worked for centuries and so got formalised and taught rigidly? Any good sources on this, it must have been covered on AskHistorians!?