Timeline for Were Confederate pikes just a curious item to laugh at?
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| Dec 4, 2017 at 4:56 | comment | added | user1095108 | @MAGolding + they could obtain a firearm from their home state or buy it from a gunsmith, obtain it from their family or obtain a captured firearm. | |
| Dec 3, 2017 at 19:23 | comment | added | user1095108 | You're wrong. The Confederates had muskets to spare. There is an account from the siege of Petersburg, where Confederate soldiers were issued with 2 muskets per soldier to shoot at charging Federals. This makes the existence of pikes all the more perplexing. | |
| Dec 3, 2017 at 18:10 | comment | added | MAGolding | Rebel pikes used to "entertain troops in the field"? I suspect that many Rebels would cry instead of laugh over the thought of being armed with pikes in battle. Of course it is better to fight with a pike than to fight bare handed in battle. And just as bayonet charges and saber charges scared enemy troops and sometimes made them break and run, a pike charge could scare enemy troops and might make them break and run. | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 19:33 | comment | added | user1095108 | Csa$ was worth almost nothing at the end of the war, partially due to Yankee counterfeiting, I don't think money mattered much close to the end. | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 18:13 | comment | added | MCW♦ | If I have a government contract to produce pikes, I'm not going to stop producing pikes simply because they're not useful. The use of the contract is to pay my employees. You can stack them in artisanal fashion for all I care. </enough of my wan attempts at humor> | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 18:09 | history | edited | user1095108 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 23, 2017 at 14:22 | comment | added | user1095108 | @Alex Those are lances. | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 13:53 | comment | added | Alex | Pikes were used in cavalry, until 1930th. You cannot really shoot a rifle effectively from horseback (contrary to what the movies tend to show). | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 12:31 | comment | added | user1095108 | Sure, but the pikes were actually being manufactured, not just studied. Close to the end of the war. | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 11:47 | comment | added | MCW♦ | Have you ever worked with government procurement? I used to work on a government study - every year when we submitted it, the Secretary of the Navy asked us to discontinue the study. Apparently he wasn't senior enough to actually change the tasking. The government purchases things because constituents require them to, not because they fulfill a mission, requirement or need. | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 11:34 | history | edited | user1095108 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 23, 2017 at 6:05 | answer | added | Tom Au | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 5:40 | history | asked | user1095108 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |