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I finally got around to compiling a free booklet on the skirmish drill which anyone can download and print. The text comes directly from Hardee's Revised Tactics of 1861 plus relevant paragraphs from LeGal's School of the Guides. I also added text for the methods of firing while kneeling and laying from Hardee. For the folks who use Casey, you'll find there are virtually no differences between Hardee and Casey for the thing noted in this booklet.
I've wanted to make this readily available for a while. I finished it for use at Ball's Bluff. It's made to be used. Take the booklet in the field. Don't worry if the rain gets to it. Use it for fire starter. Use it as necessary paper. Maybe even read it. If it gets destroyed, print another when you get home. It's that simple.
The method for printing the booklet is the same as noted in my other booklets. First, open the odd pages for the pdf booklet by clicking on this link : http://draytons.tripod.com/drill/2Co...irmishOdds.pdf Open the document and select print. Check the print properties making certain that the print orientation is on LANDSCAPE, not portrait. Print the first twelve sheets. Don't rearrange the sheets. Reinsert the sheets into your printer making certain that :
(1) the blank sides will be printed next,
(2) the first page printed previously will be the first page printed in this second printing, and
(3) the edge of the paper which exited the printer initially will now be the last edge to leave printer.
It sounds harder to describe than it really is. I just scoop my first set of copies as they are printed, flip them without rearranging the individual pages so that the blank side will now be printed, and drop the stack into the paper feeder of my printer.
Second, click on this second link to open the even pages for the pdf booklet : http://draytons.tripod.com/drill/2Co...rmishEvens.pdf Print. If you've done it right, you've got a two sided booklet. I printed a booklet for myself using these two links so I know it works. Enjoy.
I've wanted to make this readily available for a while. I finished it for use at Ball's Bluff. It's made to be used. Take the booklet in the field. Don't worry if the rain gets to it. Use it for fire starter. Use it as necessary paper. Maybe even read it. If it gets destroyed, print another when you get home. It's that simple.
The method for printing the booklet is the same as noted in my other booklets. First, open the odd pages for the pdf booklet by clicking on this link : http://draytons.tripod.com/drill/2Co...irmishOdds.pdf Open the document and select print. Check the print properties making certain that the print orientation is on LANDSCAPE, not portrait. Print the first twelve sheets. Don't rearrange the sheets. Reinsert the sheets into your printer making certain that :
(1) the blank sides will be printed next,
(2) the first page printed previously will be the first page printed in this second printing, and
(3) the edge of the paper which exited the printer initially will now be the last edge to leave printer.
It sounds harder to describe than it really is. I just scoop my first set of copies as they are printed, flip them without rearranging the individual pages so that the blank side will now be printed, and drop the stack into the paper feeder of my printer.
Second, click on this second link to open the even pages for the pdf booklet : http://draytons.tripod.com/drill/2Co...rmishEvens.pdf Print. If you've done it right, you've got a two sided booklet. I printed a booklet for myself using these two links so I know it works. Enjoy.
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