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 | | After a short but intense artillery barrage, the barrels, led by Lieutenant Colonel Irving Morrell, charged forward and ripped a wide hole in the Confederate line, forcing the Confederates to fall back and retreat toward the Nashville line, where the offensive ended and resettled into trench warfare. |
 | | He arranged the barrels as he thought fit, lying about it to Chief of Staff Leonard Wood and even President Theodore Roosevelt, claiming that he was making the formation order of operations up to confuse alleged Confederate spies. |
 | | When the Barrel Roll Offensive (named so after a popular tourist spot in Niagara Falls) proved wildly successful, the War Department quietly changed their barrel doctrine. |
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