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Civil War Era
Northwest
Civil War Council (NCWC) in Northern Oregon
National Civil War
Association (NCWA) - in California
Reenactors of the American
Civil War (RACW) - in Northern California
The Civil War Home Page
Non -WCWA Reenacting Units
9th Virginia Cavalry
(NCWC)
Northwest
Cavalry Association
3rd
Regt. Confederate Engineers, Co. E
6th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, Company G
11th
Texas Cavalry, Co. B
14th Tennessee (NCWA)
56th Pennsylvania
Signal Corps Association
12th
Virginia's extensive links page
15th Alabama Links
Sykes Regulars
20th Maine
20th Maine Co f (UK)
Other Historical Groups
www.dancingforhistory.com
www.cascademountainmen.org
www.wamuzzleloaders.org
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Reenacting News Sources
Discussion Groups
General Links
Reenacting Articles of
Interest
Fine
Tuning Your Impression - by R. Denton
Duties of the First Sergeant - from Kautz's Customs of Service
Duties
of the Sergeant Major - from
Kautz's Customs of Service
Columbia
Rifles Guide to Improving Your Federal Soldier Impression
Other
Duties of Soldiers - From
Kautz's Customs of Service
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
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
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.
Military Signals
Bugle
Calls and Signals
American Civil
War Signals
Military Manuals
Scanned copy of the entire Revised U.S. Army Regulations for
1861, with an appendix containing
the changed and laws affecting Army regulations and
Articles of war to June 25, 1863.
Scanned copy of the entire Scott's Military Dictionary
comprising technical definitions; information on raising
and keeping troops; actual service, including makeshifts
and improved material
The
Campaigner's Coffee
Confederate
Coffee Substitutes - period
newspaper receipts about efforts to replicate the exilir of
life
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
Civil War Cooking: The Tastes of Yesterday
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
Making
your own oilcloth
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
Confederate "Columbus Depot"
Jackets: The Material Evidence by Geoffrey R. Walden - one of the best
reenacting articles published on the internet
Other Uses for the Canteen - from Si Klegg and his Pard, Shorty
The
Enfield in the Civil War - or - "To Blue or Not to
Blue" by Geoff Walden
More
on Swords, Pistols, Knives
Less is More by Mark (Silas) Tackitt
Hints
on Campaign Camping from Those Who Really Did It
by Steve Acker
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
Shelter
Half - includes photos of hand sewn
grommets - from the 24th
Michigan's website
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."
O.R. 's and knapsacks hosted by the Rockport Mess
Knapsack and Haversack Packing 101 by Kevin O'Beirne
The
Lowly Blanket Roll by Michael Murley
Original
Civil War Uniforms
A
Survey of Confederate Central Government Quartermaster Issue
Jackets - Part I by
Leslie D. Jensen. Click here for part II, and click here for part III.
A Soldiers Song
Civil
War Field Fortifications. It's not an article, but its an extensive
webpage devoted to fortifications
The Federal Forts at Petersburg by Mark Terry
Step
by Step Preparation of Cartridges (with
pictures) - from the 14th Tennessee's webpage
The
Progression of Taps
24
Notes That Tap Deep Emotions - the real
story of Taps - By MSG Jari A. Villanueva, USAF
U.S.
Volunteers Safety Regulations
Converts Sought from the
Heathen
- by Old
Soldier
How
to Complete Properly a Morning Report -
from the Breckinridge
Battalion webpage - in PDF format.
Period Labels for Tins, Bottles, and et
cetera from the 14th Tennessee webpage
Virtual Palmyra Post - Preparing Cartridges
Regimental Histories
Union
Regimental Information from Dyer's Compendium
Directory
of Union Regimental Histories (Confederate Histories also
linked from this page)
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