Tabor is a set of horse-drawn wagons that supported the armies in Europe between 15th and 20th centuries. The tabors usually followed the armies and carried all the necessary supplies and rear units, such as field kitchens, armourers or shoemakers.
In the 15th century the Hussites developed a tactics of using the tabors as a self-propelled fortresses. When the Hussite army faced a numerically superior opponent, the Bohemians usually formed a circle of the armed wagons, joined them with iron chains and defended it against charges of the enemy. Such a camp was easy to establish and practically impassable to enemy cavalry.
The military tactic of frontal assault is a direct, hostile movement of forces towards enemy forces in a large number, in an attempt to overwhelm the enemy.
A siege is a prolonged military assault and blockade on a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition.
The subject of military tactics is large and diverse, covering topics from submarines to satellites and the siege at Jericho to the siege at Fallujah.
George O. Tabor: Enlisted July 15th 1861 at Princeton Va (WV), He was indicated a resident of Mercer County Va (WV) and was approx 27 years old.
The unit was able to get through the lines at Appomattox and made it to Lynchburg where in April 1865 it disbanded, thus the majority of the members that may have still been present for duty and in the field are not reflected in the Appomattox Surrender Parole listings.
George O. Tabor survived the war and was back in Mercer County, and was listed on the 1880 census for that county and listed occupation as a farmer.
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