A
position occupied for a more or less prolonged period of time by an army
in field during a campaign that was covered on all sides by lines of field
or permanent fortifications. Intrenched camps were generally developed to
shelter an inferior army from attacks by a superior army and were most commonly
designed with intervals between fortified posts tha allowed the sheltered
army the option to attack out of the intrenched camp without being hampered
by the fortifications. Fortress Rosecrans, designed by James St. C. Morton,
is a good example of an intrenched camp constructed during the American Civil
War. Fortress Rosecrans consisted of a line of detached lunettes and connecting
works with intervals that would have allowed a force defending the intrenched
camp to counter attack out of the camp.
A
position occupied for a more or less prolonged period of time by an army
in field during a campaign that was covered on all sides by lines of field
or permanent fortifications. Intrenched camps were generally developed to
shelter an inferior army from attacks by a superior army and were most commonly
designed with intervals between fortified posts tha allowed the sheltered
army the option to attack out of the intrenched camp without being hampered
by the fortifications. Fortress Rosecrans, designed by James St. C. Morton,
is a good example of an intrenched camp constructed during the American Civil
War. Fortress Rosecrans consisted of a line of detached lunettes and connecting
works with intervals that would have allowed a force defending the intrenched
camp to counter attack out of the camp.
