Cary's Bayonet Exercise & Skirmisher Drill

[Stonewall_Greyfox]

Gentlemen,

Came upon the following link for Cary's Bayonet Exercise & Skirmisher Drill. West & Johnson. Richmond. 1861.

http://openlibrary.org/search?ftokens=ivbfiiyhucso

Have not yet done a comparrison for how this compares to McClellan's, Hardees, Gilham's...etc.

Is anyone else familiar with this work...it's publication...field use?

Paul B.

P.S. Now if only we could get this reprinted...

[BrandonEnglish]

Just from scanning the pictures and reading some of the drill, the bayonet exercise is pretty similar to that of McClellans...but I didn't do a deep scan of the text. There are some differences, obviously but looks to be pretty close to McClellans.

[Silas]

Here's a link to an easier to read copy : http://books.google.com/books?id=zMBJAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA33&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=0_0#PPA1,M1 I saw it on google books a while back and added it to the edged weapons section (http://www.zipcon.net/~silas/links.htm#N_5_E) on my links page. I didn't recall anything remarkable about it and had forgotten about it until now. I haven't done a word for word comparison to our CW manuals, but it the skirmish drill looks very much the same. No big surprise there as the American manuals were taken from the French. Same goes for Little Mac's manual of bayonet drill (http://books.google.com/books?id=-GgDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPP7,M1) which he admitted as being a translation from the French.