Mr Stevenson statement regarding special companies is accurate, especially Confederate regiments. I doubt all regiments had them, but many did. For example, as...
Another note concerning flags: While the Army of Tennesee's flags did resemble teh AoNV after 1864, I must caution yoiu that the white edging of the Bars...
It has several collections of ACW miniatures in the 'One True Scale' (15mm), but they are all b/w and it seems someone has applied a better coloring books. ...
Sorry. As I said, the pics are of photos in b/w, the figs are 15mm with gloss coat. The flags are well detailed and illustrated, but are only illustrations...
This would reflect pre-Mexican War practice (see for example Scott's Infantry Tactics of 1840) in which each infantry regiment of ten companies had one rifle...
Greetings and Happy New Year! While doing some much needed re-shuffling in the attic yesterday I stumbled into my old box set for JR II. My thoughts...
"Where are you going to keep the boards?" is the same question my wife keeps asking. I am going to build some shelves in my garage. I have two Rorkes Drift...
Excuse me gentlemen... I would like to inject a comment to be taken for it's face value. I don't have the reference source anymore, and I'm recalling this from...
Did anyone else see the pictures on TMP for the new 28mm plastics that the Perry's are doing? The first ones are ACW. Is anyone else interested? I have seen a...
I have no doubt that in the early part of the war both sides tried to organize things according to previously accepted standards of military organization,...
Many thanks for the information on rectangular AoT flags with wider, white strips along the bars. After examining my stock of miniatures, I have several CSA...
I quote from p.57: "Normal practice throughout the war was for regiments to arm their flank or skirmisher companies with the better weaponry available to...
I have not gamed with 10 highs, but I did do quite a bit of gaming with K&L figures way back when people still lived in caves. They were fine for gaming, and...
It has been several years since I read the 2 books I'm trying to draw memory from. One was heavily referenced to "letters home" and officer reports, rather dry...
I have no primary disagreement. But I think the point being made is that even without a specialized designation, be it through training or weaponry, entire ...
I'm not a scholar, so the following may be misunderstandings on my part; therefore please comment freely :) Detaching a couple of companies either as...
I'm not a scholar, so the following may be misunderstandings on my part; therefore please comment freely :) Detaching a couple of companies either as...
It must also be said that (boy, I hope I don't set off a firestorm here) that this book is part of a series published in the UK and they do prefer things to...
That is, they suffer from the mindset that we fought that war as Europeans would have fought that war. **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to...
Or perhaps they just have a greater tendency towards regulation? When it comes to fighting, Americans in general and Southerners in particular, are a practical...
I think that we are in general agreement on both our points to this argument (very friendly that it is) but perhaps a wider perspective will show we are both...
I think that we are in general agreement on both our points to this argument (very friendly that it is) but perhaps a wider perspective will show we are both...
Is it accurate to ascribe the condition of a particular, i.e. early war, western, poorer and underequiped, to a whole, i.e., the American Civil War ? That...
Well, it does seem that Mr. Stevenson believed that "the regulations say it must be so, so it must have been." I do wonder if he might have "cherry-picked" it...
Still waiting on the book, but it sounds like Mr. Stevenson wanted his ACW neater and tidier than it actually was. Descriptions of ACW troops such as Scott...
I don't intend to get much involved in this discussion of skirmishers, but this Stevenson fellow is altogether correct regarding troops formed in "dense...
Dean, Is Scott Patchan's book in the bargain section of B&N or Amazon ? Nearly bought a pile of western theatre stuff, but it was all full price. The only...
Hi Jim, Yes, I have studied Hardee's, and other infantry manuals. You may be able to download Hardee's off a reenactor website. As I recall, the version of...
Dean, Thanks for the titles. They're all on my "to be bought" list. I remember reading something recently about ACW skirmishing and apparently there were a...
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