 Other notable figures with limited field experience who were promoted to brigadier general by Pleasonton at that time were Elon J. Farnsworth, son of a Congressman, Wesley Merritt, and George Armstrong Custer.His treatise "New American Tactics" was a series of articles published in "The Army and Navy Journal" that advocated making the skirmish line the new line of battle, which was considered revolutionary at the time.These contributions were translated and copied into foreign military journals, including Correard's renowned "".