GDG- Gunnery Practice

[Batrinque at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/26/07 10:40:16 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
rkadas at sbcglobal.net writes:

> I hope that I haven't jumped in too late. A interesting small book I have 
> used re. ACW small arms and marksmanship is   Civil War Firearms
>  By Joseph B. Bilby
>  Combined Publishing
>  Conshohocken, PA
>  1996
>   
>  The author claims that not all of the AoP was armed with rifled muskets 
> until after GB, and that at GB 10.5% of al troops carried smoothbores primarily 
> loaded with Buck &Ball. 

A quick check of Busey and Martin's "Regimental Strengths at Gettysburg" 
indicates that more than 20 Union infantry regiments were armed either wholly or 
partially with smoothbores.

Bruce Trinque
Amston, CT


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