Re: "Fire By Rotation" - Documented or Not?????
Greetings Greg,
Actually, the story of "street firing" is even more complicated than you think since the 1858 Regulations for the New York State Militia carries a very lengthy section dealing with this subject. I have a complete copy of this work and can also furnish information from it upon request. I have not yet been able to obtain a complete copy of the the 1866 NY National Guard drill manual published by Colonel Geo. M. Baker (I do have various extracts from it) but I suspect "street firing" is also mentioned there.
Baker's work is interesting and useful since it is based on "Hardee/Casey" but fills in various gaps encountered those works (e.g., how and when file-closers stack arms). It can be arguably called a "Civil War-era manual" since it was published no later than April/May 1866 and its author saw active service with the 21st NYVI and 74th NGSNY.
Regards,
Mark Jaeger
Originally posted by Greg Renault
Actually, the story of "street firing" is even more complicated than you think since the 1858 Regulations for the New York State Militia carries a very lengthy section dealing with this subject. I have a complete copy of this work and can also furnish information from it upon request. I have not yet been able to obtain a complete copy of the the 1866 NY National Guard drill manual published by Colonel Geo. M. Baker (I do have various extracts from it) but I suspect "street firing" is also mentioned there.
Baker's work is interesting and useful since it is based on "Hardee/Casey" but fills in various gaps encountered those works (e.g., how and when file-closers stack arms). It can be arguably called a "Civil War-era manual" since it was published no later than April/May 1866 and its author saw active service with the 21st NYVI and 74th NGSNY.
Regards,
Mark Jaeger
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