Manual of Arms for the 2d
Wisconsin
- by Mike Thorson - 33d Wisconsin
Manual of Arms for Infantry: A
Re-examination: Part I by Geoff Walden & Dom Dal Bello (commences with Chapter I -
Hardee's Revisions for Confederates)
Manual of Arms for Infantry: A
Re-examination: Part II by Geoff Walden & Dom Dal Bello
Dress Parade &
Reviews from
the Capital Guards (6th Arkansas) Website
19th Century Guard
Duty
of the 21st Virginia
On Guard! A Primer
for Civil War Military Security Duties - from the Capital
Guards (6th Arkansas) Website
Right Shoulder Shift
with Charge Bayonet? - from Mark (Silas) Tackitt
Rest, Rest, Rest, and
Rest! or
Don't let established reenacting practices interfere with
period practices by Mark (Silas) Tackitt
Nearly all
of the below links were copied from the excellent Drill Network page from the Liberty Greys (1st MD) of the 6th
Battalion, Southern Legion, 1st Division, Army of Northern
Virginia.
Outline of Basic Drill
NCO Manual
The Second Sergeant
6th Battalion Drill Guidelines
How to Study Hardee's School of
the Battalion
Upton's Comparison
1891 Comparison
On Forming the Company
OBSTACLE!
Drill
Manuals
Manual of Arms for the
Spencer Repeating Rifle by Capt. G.M. Barber,
commanding 1st Batt'n Ohio Sharp-Shooters
The Volunteer's
Manual by Lt.Col. Baxter (1861) - from the 2d
Wisconsin - includes great illustrations of the musket
drill
Another Baxter's Manual
U.S. Infantry Tactics
- Silas Casey (1862) - School of the Soldier
Cooke's Cavalry Tactics (1862) or Regulations for the
Instruction, Formations, and Movements of the Cavalry of
the Army and Volunteers of the United States.
Cooper's Volunteer's Manual (1836), a Concise System of
Instructions and Regulations for the Militia and
Volunteers of the United States, comprehending the
Exercises and Movements of the Infantry,
Light Infantry, and Riflemen; Cavalry and Artillery:
Together with the Manner of Doing Duty in Garrison and
Camp, and the Forms of Parades, Reviews, and Inspections,
as Established by Authority for the Government of the
Regular Army. Prepared and Arranged by Brevet Capt. S.
Cooper, Aid de Camp and Assistant
Adjutant General
Gilham's Manual
for Volunteers and Militia-
Another Gilham's Manual for
Volunteers and Militia - a better page which
includes illustrations
Hardee's Tactics (1855) - someone with too
much time on their hands has been typing Hardee's onto
the net
Scanned copy of
the entire U.S. Infantry Tactics for the instruction,
exercise, and manoeuvres of the United States infantry,
including infantry of the line, light infantry, and
riflemen. Prepared under the direction of the War
department, and authorized and adopted by the secretary
of war, May 1, 1861.
Hardee's Tactics (1862)
The Volunteer's Handbook (1861) Containing an
Abridgement of Hardee's Infantry Tactics Adapted to the
Use of the Precussion Musket in Squad and Company
Exercies, Manual of Arms for Riflemen, and U.S. Army
Regulations as to Parades, Reviews, Inspections, Guard
Mounting, Etc. by James K. Lee, of the First Regiment of
Virginia Volunteers
Mahan's Out-Post
McClellan's Bayonet Exercise
Digest of the U.S. Tactics for
the Use of Officers (1862), prepared by Col. Wm.
Steffen, of
the Forty Fourth Mass. Regiment.
The Campaigner's Coffee
Confederate Coffee Substitutes - period
newspaper receipts about efforts to replicate the exilir of
life
Extract of Coffee for the Army by Art Ayotte (Fugawee Corp)
The Value of a Little Research - Q & A's about dried
beef during the war
No One Loves Me Like My Tomato
Can
- An article about traveling light
Menu for a Three-Day
Event - another article from
Charles Heath
Virtual Palmyra Post
- Rations & Recipes
The CWi Civil War
Cookbook
Trail Foods - this is from a mountain man
page, but it has some excellent receipts
When Fod is in Season by Dave Rodgers of the Texas Ground Hornets
General Order No. 60 re:
Shelter Tent Dimensions date December 12, 1864
and corrected February 1, 1865 from The
Arsenal, a serious CW sutler
Usage of Tents by Eric Mink,
4th VA at StonewallBrigade.com
Tenting Tonight - The
Confederate Infantryman in Camp on Campaign by K.C.
MacDonald of the Lazy Jacks Mess
Shelter
Tents for the Confederate Impression by
Pvt. R. Gregory as written in the September
2000 Newsletter for the 21st Virginia
The Bridgeman
Shelter Tent by Scott Cross
Notes on an original shelter-half in
the Wisconsin's Veteran's Museum Collection
The
Heywood Shelter Half - it's really an
advertisement, but it has informationabout original
shelters not otherwise available
Shred the Tents and Burn
the Wagons: how tents ruin reenactor credibility by Mark (Silas) Tackitt - this is the
actual article submitted to Camp Chase Gazette which they
edited, renamed and published in the March, 2001 issue as
"Shed the tents and forget the wagons."
The Soldier's
Shelter Tent as Used by the French from John Wedeward
Encampment and Shelter from Jim
Butler of the
Salt River Rifles
Canteens
Other Uses for
the Canteen - from Si Klegg and his
Pard, Shorty
Canteens of the
ANV by Eric Mink, 4th VA at
StonewallBrigade.com
Canteen Covers by Chris
Sullivan, Stony Brook Company
Knapsack/Blanket
Rolls
Knapsack and
Haversack Packing 101 by Kevin O'Beirne on the Columbia Rifles Webpage
The Lowly Blanket Roll by Michael Murley on the Columbia Rifles Webpage
Haversacks
Poke Sacks 101 from the Georgia Volunteer
Battalion Webpage
Making your own Haversack from the 16th NCT page
Cartridges
Step by Step
Preparation of Cartridges (with pictures) - from the
14th Tennessee's webpage
Making Realistic
.58 Caliber Ball Ammunition from The Stragglers
Webpage
How to Make .69
Caliber Cartidges (Real and Realistic) from the Capital Guards
(6th Arkansas)
