GDG- Gunnery Practice

[Batrinque at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/26/07 8:10:25 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
elcarto at comcast.net writes:

> Dave Powell would be better able to comment on this than I, but both sides 
> had trained sharpshooters that showed what could be done with the weapons of 
> the day, and IIRC, Cleburne was instituting an emphasis on gunnery practice 
> on a larger scale in the western army.  

Fred L. Ray's "Shock Troops of he Confederacy: The Sharpshooter Battalions of 
the Army of Northern Virginia" is well worth reading on the subject; despite 
the subtitle, it is by no means confined exclusively to looking at the ANV, 
nor even just at Confederate units.    The Sharpshooter Battalions in question 
largely postdate Gettysburg.

Bruce Trinque
Amston, CT


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