1862 Hardee's Book

[amazingkenneth]

Hello All,
I'm looking for a repro copy of the 1862 Hardee's North Carolina Manual. It seems that the sutler that did sell them is at this time no longer carring them. Any ideas? For now I have been keeping up with it on Drill net.com... Thank God for that site..

Your Servant,
K.J. Reihl

[CJDaley]

Hello All,
I'm looking for a repro copy of the 1862 Hardee's North Carolina Manual. It seems that the sutler that did sell them is at this time no longer carring them. Any ideas? For now I have been keeping up with it on Drill net.com... Thank God for that site..

Your Servant,
K.J. Reihl

A repro of this manual will be coming out within the next 5 weeks....stay tuned.

[amazingkenneth]

Chris,
Thank you for that great information....

K.J. Reihl

[Tom Ezell]

Ken:

These copies were apparently a one-time deal, and they're out of print. You can occasionally find them via http://www.bookfinder.com, and searching for "North Carolina Drill Manual." I got mine like that last fall, though it wound up at around 50 bucks or so. Turns out the copy came from Shelby Foote's collection though, with a dedication and the guy's signature in the flyleaf, so that was a nice surprise.

Google is an alternative, though what you wind up with there are links to places where folks refer to it in their unit standards.

What you get is a blue softbound copy with the text of Hardee's revised Vols. 1 and 2, plus Scott's Evolutions of the Line. Text only, mind you, there are no illustrations and pull-outs as you would find in the little individual handbooks.

As Chris mentioned, they're coming up with a reprint of the 2-volume Goetzel edition handbooks sometime this fall, and these will be well worth having.

[SCSecesh]

Tom, et al,
A copy of the original NC manual is available and current discussion is underway regarding a reprint. The level of interest is key here. How many folks would like one at $30.00 a copy?? -- Mind you that price is dependent on the right number of people replying in the positive and could be higher if there is less interest.
Another question - The original has a fair amount of damage and is difficult to read in spots. Would an entire reset in the style of the original be preferable to copies of the original? Do we want this to look like and "old" book or one just purchased??

[Tom Ezell]

Tom, et al,
A copy of the original NC manual is available and current discussion is underway regarding a reprint. The level of interest is key here. How many folks would like one at $30.00 a copy?? -- Mind you that price is dependent on the right number of people replying in the positive and could be higher if there is less interest.
Another question - The original has a fair amount of damage and is difficult to read in spots. Would an entire reset in the style of the original be preferable to copies of the original? Do we want this to look like and "old" book or one just purchased??

Me, I got Mr. Foote's old copy that he apparently wasn't using any more... so I have one that I use for personal reference and research, and for occasional display.

Given that nearly everybody and their cousin references the "revised Hardee's" or the old North Carolina Drill Manual as their standard tactics reference, yet nobody really has a copy save for the on-line version at Drill Network, there is a great need for reprints that are suitable for both use on the drill field, for personal reference, and for display when needed. When Levi Ledbetter had them five or six years ago, he asked $25 apiece for them, and that's not too expensive compared to what the little hardbound 1855 pocket manuals are going for.

Tom

[SCSecesh]

When Levi Ledbetter had them five or six years ago, he asked $25 apiece for them, and that's not too expensive compared to what the little hardbound 1855 pocket manuals are going for.

Tom
Yup! Levi's were part of a publication of the 26th NC money raising for a monument plan, I beleive and they are all "up the spout." The printer of that edition destroyed all the plates/negs but the microfilm (The Spelman Edition Raleigh NC, 1862)from which it was produced is available and from which the new run would be produced or from which the new copy would be typeset and reproduced - just depends on which direction the masses desire. As a matter of record the original copy did not have a cover remaining so the cover was improvised and likely would be so again.