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Category: Civil War Units

  • Shock Troops of the Confederacy, Part 10

    Shock Troops of the Confederacy, Part 10 Shock Troops of the Confederacy: The Sharpshooter Battalions of the Army of Northern Virginia by Fred L. Ray ISBN-10 0-9649585-5-4 ISBN-13 978-0-9649585-5-5 6 x 9 inch hardback – 450 Pages 43 Maps, 59 Illustrations Footnoted / Indexed / Complete Bibliography Publication date: Winter 2005 Price $34.95 In my […]

  • Sharpshooter tactics

    I’ve just put a new tactics section up on my web site that shows the various missions of the sharpshooters, as well as some, like “seine hauling” for prisoners, that they invented themselves. (Follow the link at the bottom to the second page.) There are many similarities between the jobs of light infantry and light […]