Tag: target practice

  • Camp Life and Target Practice in 1862

    Bill Adams sends along a clipping from the Northampton Gazette & Courier, dated February 11, 1862, which gives a very good look a camp life in the Union army just prior to McClellan’s Peninsular campaign. It should also help dispel one of the most persistent CW myths—that many soldiers went into battle without ever even […]

  • Civil War “sniper” training

    I received a request for comment on Civil War “sniper” training as compared to WWI: We’re trying to piece together a longitudinal picture of civil war sniper training and contrast that with U.S. sniper training during WW I.   Our focus is on what is learned; then lost over given periods of time. The short answer […]