Or soldiers right at the front lines that are responsible to make an initial attack but also responsible to communicate to the back lines so that the leaders can make decisions about how to coordinate the best response.
So often you'll find these ugly passes from the forwards that will be like, we won't be taught to do in the UK necessarily, or in Ireland, and it will be a vertical pass backwards, a scoop pass.
He and Lincoln disagreed as to strategy; the president preferred a massive frontal assault at Manassas, while McClellan proposed a direct march from the rear on the Confederate capital at Richmond.