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35. Miller, Training of an Army, 115; Ulysses S. Grant, “The Battle of Shiloh,” in Battles and Leaders, 1:473.

36. Robertson, Soldiers Blue and Gray, 19.

37. Philip Haythornewaite, British Napoleonic Infantry Tactics, 1792–1815 (Oxford: Osprey, 2008), 23; Strachan, From Waterloo to Balaclava, 32.

38. Earl J. Hess, The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2008), 24–25; Joseph G. Bilby, Civil War Firearms: Their Historical Background, Tactical Use and Modern Collecting and Shooting (Conshohocken, PA: Combined Books, 1996), 62–66.

39. Hess, The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat, 17–18; W. W. Greener, Modern Breech-loaders: Sporting and Military (London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1871), 186–87.

40. Charles Augustus Stevens, Berdan’s United States Sharpshooters in the Army of the Potomac, 1861–1865 (St. Paul, MN: Price-McGill, 1892), 7; Roy M. Marcot, U.S. Sharpshooters: Berdan’s Civil War Elite (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 2007), 47–48; Robert V. Bruce, Lincoln and the Tools of War (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1956), 252–56, 261–64.

41. “The Column of Attack,” Colburn’s United Service Magazine and Military Journal 70 (1852): 199; Ian Fletcher and Natalia Ishchenko, The Battle of the Alma: First Blood to the Allies in the Crimea (South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword, 2008), 140; Michael Barthorp, The British Army on Campaign, 1816–1902: The Crimea, 1854–1856 (Oxford: Osprey, 1987), 3, 9–10, 11.

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43. George Washington Whitman, Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman, ed. Jerome M. Loving (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), 56; James M. Williams, From That Terrible Field: Civil War Letters of James M. Williams, Twenty-first Alabama Infantry Volunteers, ed. John Kent Folmar (University: University of Alabama Press, 1981), 60.

44. George Michael Neese, Three Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery (New York: Neale, 1911), 261; Earl J. Hess, Pickett’s Charge: The Last Attack at Gettysburg (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), 197–98.

45. William Valmore Izlar, A Sketch of the War Record of the Edisto Rifles, 1861–1865 (Columbia, SC: State, 1914), 55–57; Nosworthy, Bloody Crucible of Courage, 30–34; Hess, The Rifle Musket, 30.

46. Cadmus M. Wilcox, Rifles and Rifle Practice: An Elementary Treatise upon the Theory of Rifle Firing (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1859), 238.

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49. Nosworthy, Roll Call to Destiny, 20.

50. Henry Charles Fletcher, History of the American War (London: R. Bentley, 1866), 3:366; Gerald F. Linderman, Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War (New York: Free Press, 1987), 250; Elisha Paxton, October 12, 1862, in John G. Paxton, Memoir and Memorials: Elisha Franklin Paxton, Brigadier-General, C.S.A. (New York: Neale, 1907), 66.

51. Fairfax Downey, Sound of the Guns: The Story of American Artillery from the Ancient and Honorable Company to the Atom Cannon and Guided Missile (New York: D. McKay, 1956), 121; William E. Birkhimer, Historical Sketch of the Organization, Administration, Matériel and Tactics of the Artillery, United States Army (Washington, DC: J. J. Chapman, 1884), 286–87; The Ordnance Manual for the Use of the Officers of the United States Army (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1862), 14, 18–21; J. G. Benton, A Course of Instruction in Ordnance and Gunnery Compiled for the Use of the Cadets of the United States Military Academy (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1862), 112–13, 166–68, 516–23; Scheibert, in Luvaas, Military Legacy of the Civil War, 66.

52. William W. Strong, History of the 121st Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers: “An Account from the Ranks” (Philadelphia: Catholic Standard and Times, 1906), 31; “The Rifle and the Spade, or the Future of Field Operations,” Journal of the United Service Institution 3 (1860): 173–74; Henry Nichols Blake, Three Years in the Army of the Potomac (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1866), 217; R. L. Murray, E. P. Alexander and the Artillery Action in the Peach Orchard (Wolcott, NY: Benedum Books, 2000), 7–8; Richard Holmes, Sahib: The British Soldier in India, 1750–1914 (London: HarperCollins, 2005), 337; Joseph A. Frank and George A. Reaves, Seeing the Elephant: Raw Recruits at the Battle of Shiloh (New York: Greenwood Press, 1989), 103, 136.

53. George K. Dauchy, “The Battle of Ream’s Station,” May 8, 1890, in Military Essays