A TREATISE

ON THE

TACTICAL USE OF THE THREE ARMS:

INFANTRY, ARTILLERY, AND CAVALRY.

BY

FRANCIS J. LIPPITT,

EX-COLONEL SECOND INFANTRY, CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS.

NEW YORK: D. VAN NOSTRAND, PUBLISHER, 192 BROADWAY. 1865.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865,

By D. VAN NOSTRAND,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

ALVORD, PRINTER.

TO THE MILITARY PUBLIC.

The Author would feel obliged for any facts or suggestions which might enable him to render a future edition of this work more valuable.

PROVIDENCE, R.I., _July, 1865_.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PAGE

Tactical Use of Infantry 3

I. ITS ATTACK, GENERALLY 4 II. FORMATIONS FOR ATTACK 8 III. THE ATTACK, HOW MADE 19 IV. BAYONET CHARGES 24 V. DEFENCE AGAINST INFANTRY 27 VI. DEFENCE AGAINST ARTILLERY 34 VII. DEFENCE AGAINST CAVALRY 36 VIII. SQUARES 40 IX. SKIRMISHERS 49 A. THEIR USE 50 B. HOW POSTED 53 C. HOW HANDLED 55 D. RULES FOR INDIVIDUAL SKIRMISHERS 56

Tactical Use of Artillery 59

I. HOW POSTED WITH RESPECT TO THE GROUND 59 II. HOW POSTED WITH RESPECT TO OUR OWN TROOPS 63 III. HOW POSTED WITH RESPECT TO THE ENEMY 66 IV. POSTING OF BATTERIES AND OF PIECES AS BETWEEN THEMSELVES 68 V. HOW USED 70 A. GENERALLY 70 B. IN OFFENSIVE COMBAT 72 C. IN DEFENSIVE COMBAT 75 D. AGAINST INFANTRY 78 E. AGAINST CAVALRY 82 F. AGAINST ARTILLERY 83 VI. ITS FIRE 85 VII. ITS SUPPORTS 89

Tactical Use of Cavalry 93

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms:
• 2: Infantry attacks with its fire
• 3: From the enemy's infantry fire
• 4: The physical momentum of the charge
• 5: Both by artillery and sharpshooters
• 6: Each of two or three subdivisions deep
• 7: And thus be exposed to a destructive enfilade
• 8: To halt instinctively and deploy into line
• 9: But always deployed as skirmishers
• 10: Whenever our troops used the bayonet
• 11: And of musketry from the rebels' rifle pits at the summit
• 12: The regiments of Hazen's brigade fired only by volleys
• 13: This demoralizing tendency does not exist
• 14: The armor of cuirassiers is bullet proof
• 15: Or ground unfavorable to cavalry
• 16: By volleys delivered at a signal
• 17: Unmasking a battery of horse artillery
• 18: Rules for individual skirmishers
• 19: Cyr instantly prepared to charge
• 20: Rules for individual skirmishers
• 21: Fire slow TACTICAL USE OF ARTILLERY
• 22: Ricochet shots do not rise much
• 23: Constituting the stationary batteries
• 24: Enabling us to enfilade the British line
• 25: All the artillery is lost at once
• 26: Which always greatly values artillery support
• 27: Rushed forward and captured the village of Friedland
• 28: Sigel disposed his guns in echelons
• 29: Grape and canister should alone be used
• 30: The last discharge should be of canister alone
• 31: Ricochet shots have also great moral effect
• 32: The British gunners fled from their pieces
• 33: Cavalry deploys in lines 1
• 34: Since the echelons mutually support each other
• 35: When cavalry is posted on the flanks
• 36: And compelling the infantry posted at Blenheim to surrender
• 37: Cavalry must not rest its flank on a wood
• 38: Cavalry generally manoeuvres at a trot
• 39: When cavalry are deployed as skirmishers
• 40: Cavalry attacks cavalry in line
• 41: For two hours the cuirassiers had been standing in line
• 42: Colonel Arentschild commanding the Hussars
• 43: Cavalry should attack it in flank
• 44: Sharpshooting infantry skirmishers may
• 45: But Lancers are usually no match against other cavalry
• 46: Heavy cavalry is heavily armed
• 47: That although cavalry is mainly an offensive arm