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Tag: sharpshooters

  • Lore of the Sharpshooter

    In my last post I discussed how photographer Alexander Gardner posed the body of a sharpshooter at Devil’s Den for a more dramatic shot, and how this became an iconic image of the war. I came across an excellent article on the Gettysburg Discussion Group site by Gary E. Adleman and Timothy H. Smith on […]

  • The Antietam Anomaly

    In my last entry I discussed “Bull” Sumner’s attack on the West Woods and what went wrong, and why he ended up attacking with a single division instead of the three he had available. Here I want to consider one of the mysteries of the battle — why did two-thirds of II Corps suddenly angle […]

  • Snipers, Sharpshooters, and Designated Marksmen

    There is a great deal of confusion about the various types of riflemen and their duties, both now and in the Civil War. This is pretty obvious in a recent AP article “USMC sniper metes out swift death in Iraq.” What the author of this overwritten article is talking about is really a designated marksman, […]

  • Review: Shock Troops of the Confederacy by Fred Ray

    http://www.brettschulte.net/ACWBooks/Books/ACWUnitHistories/ShockTroopsConfederacySharpshootersRay.html Note: For those of you who missed it, you might want to check out my multi-part summary of the book, starting with Part 1. Shock Troops of the Confederacy: The Sharpshooter Battalions of the Army of Northern Virginia. Fred L. Ray. Asheville, NC: CFS Press (2006). 432 pp. 43 maps. Review Fred Ray’s Shock […]

  • 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 […]