Drill Instruction & Manuals
Articles
Bussey, Mike
Calloway, Paul
Stack Arms: Eliminating Fumbling in the Federal Ranks
Hermann, Marc
Stillwagon, John
Right Shoulder, Shift: A Reexamination
Straus, Ian
Skirmish Drill - 6th Texas Infantry
Tackitt, Mark (Silas)
Know Your Guides Part 1: Marching by the flank and in a column of companies
Know Your Guides Part 2: By chaos into line
Rest, Rest, Rest and Rest!
Right Shoulder Shift with Charge Bayonet?
The Worthless Second Sergeant
- Assembly for Parade
The Color Company and Second Company Set the Line
Forming the Right Wing
Forming the Left Wing
- Parade
An Explanation about the Procedures for Opening and Closing Ranks in Parade
Walden, Geoff & Dom Dal Bello
Manual of Arms for Infantry: A Re-examination Part I
Manual of Arms for Infantry: A Re-examination Part II
Woodard, Elmer
The Correct, Complete, Perfect, Revised, and Improved School of the Color Guard
General Manuals
Andrews
Hints to Company Officers on Their Military Duties (1863)
Butterfield
Camp and Outpost Duty for Infantry (1862)
Craighill
The Army Officer's Pocket Companion (1862)
Dal Bello
Parade, Inspection and Basic Evolutions of the Infantry Battalion (1994)
Duane
Manual for Engineer Troops (1864)
Durye
Standing Orders of the Seventh Regiment (1861)
Flowers
Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States (1861)
Gilham
Manual for Instruction for the Volunteers (1861)
Grace
The Army Surgeon's Manual (1864)
Kautz
Customes of Service for Officers
Duties of the First Sergeant II
Kratky
Lippitt
A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms (1865)
The Special Operations of War (1868)
Mahan
A Treatise on Field Fortifications (1862)
Advanced Guard, Outpost and Detachment (1863)
Ordronaux
Hints on Health in Armies (1863)
Patten
Instruction for Officers in the Preparation of Rolls, Returns and Accounts (1864)
Pickney
Stone
Compendia of Military Instructions: Mass. Vol. Militia (1857)
Viele
Handbook of Active Service (1861)
War Dept.
CS - Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States (1864)
PAY - Instructions for Making Muster Rolls (1863)
PAY - Regulations for the Pay Department of the United States (1861)
US - Army and Navy Journal, Vol. 1 (1863-64)
US - Army and Navy Journal, Vol. 2 (1864-65)
US - Army and Navy Journal, Vol. 3 (1865-66)
US - Instructions for Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers on Outpost and Patrol Duty (1863)
US - Regulations for the Army of the United States (1857)
US - Regulations for the Army of the United States (1861)
US - Revised US Army Regulations (1861)
US - The United States Service Magazine, Vol. 1
US - The United States Service Magazine, Vol. 2
US - The United States Service Magazine, Vol. 3
US - The United States Service Magazine, Vol. 4
US - The United States Service Magazine, Vol. 5
Unknown
Artillery Manuals
Andrews
Benton
A Course of Instruction in Ordnance
Gibbon
Mordecai
The Ordnance Manual for the Use of Officers of the USArmy (2d ED, 1850)
The Ordnance Manual for the Use of Officers of the USArmy (3d ED, 1862)
Parker
Instruction for Naval Light Artillery
Patton
Artillery Drill: Containing the School of the Piece and Battery Maneuvers
Roberts
Handbook of Artillery for the Service of the United States
US War Dept.
Instruction for Field Artillery (1860)
Instruction for Heavy Artillery (1851)
Instruction for Mountain Artillery (1851)
Light Artillery Drill Instructions (1891)
Cavalry Manuals
Cooke
Cavalry Tactics or Regulations for the Instruction, Formations, and Movements - Vol.1 (1861)
Cavalry Tactics or Regulations for the Instruction, Formations, and Movements - Vol.2 (1861)
Davis
Maury & Dabney
Skirmish Drill for Mounted Troops (1861)
McClellan
Regulations and Instructions for the Field Service of the US Cavalry (1862)
Patten
Cavalry Drill and Sabre Exercise (1864)
Poinsett
Wheeler
A Revised System of Cavalry Tactics (CSA)
Edge Weapons Manuals
Berriman
Cary
Skirmishers Drill and Bayonet Exercise
Dal Bello
Kelton
A New Manual of the Bayonet for the Army
McClellan
O'Rourke
A New System of Sword Exercise
Patten
Infantry Tactics, Bayonet Drill, and Small Sword Exercise
Watson
Wheeley
Infantry Manuals
Baxter
The Volunteer's Manual--Containing Full Instructions for the Recruit (1861)
Cairns
Casey
U.S. Infantry Tactics, for the Instruction of Colored Troops (1863)
VOLUME I - Schools of the Soldier and Company (1862)
VOLUME I - Schools of the Soldier and Company (1863)
VOLUME II - School of the Battalion (1862)
VOLUME III - Evolutions of a Brigade and Corps D'Armee (1862)
Cooper
Coopee
The Field Manual for Battalion Drill (1862)
The Field Manual of Evolutions of the Line (1862)
Dal Bello
Parade, Inspection and Basic Evolutions of the Infantry Battalion (1994)
Duffield
Camp, Garrison & Guard Duty (1861)
School of Brigade and Evolutions of the Line (1862)
Ellsworth
Manual of Arms for Light Infantry (1861)
Gilham
Manual for Instruction for the Volunteer and Militia of the CSA (1861)
Godfrey
Hardee
Rifle & Infantry Tactics, Revised and Improved aka Confederate Hardee's (1861) - Vol.1
Rifle & Infantry Tactics, Revised and Improved aka Confederate Hardee's (1861) - Vol.2
Rifle & Infantry Tactics, Revised and Improved aka Confederate Hardee's (1863) - Vol.1
Rifle & Infantry Tactics, Revised and Improved aka Confederate Hardee's (1863) - Vol.2
Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics (1855)
Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics (1860)
Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics (1861)
US Infantry Tactics: The Secretary of War edition (Cameron - 1861) - Vol 1
US Infantry Tactics: The Secretary of War edition (Cameron - 1861) - Vol 2
Heath
A System of Target Practice (1862)
Infantry Tactics for Schools (1863)
Lee
The Volunteer's Hand Book (1860)
The Volunteer's Hand Book (1861)
LeGal
School of the Guides (CONDENSED)
Lewis
The Soldier's Companion (1863)
Mahan
Advanced Guard, Outpost, and Detachment (1863)
Morris
Infantry Tactics - Vol. 1 (1865)
Infantry Tactics - Vol. 2 (1865)
Pace
Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics (1865)
Patten
Infantry Tactics, Bayonet Drill, and Small Sword Exercise (1865)
Pease
The Rifleman's Handbook (1862)
Richardson
Infantry Tactics: Rules for the Exercise and Maneuvers of the Confederate States (1862)
Scott
(1830) Abstract of Infantry Tactics
(1835) School of the Soldier (volume I)
(1852) School of the Battalion (volume II)
(1857) School of the Soldier (volume I)
(1861) School of the Battalion (volume II)
(1861) Evolutions of the Line (volume III)
Stone
Compendia of Military Instructions: Mass. Vol. Militia (1857)
Tackett
1863 Manual of Arms for the Rifle Musket
Casey's 1863 Manual of Arms for the Rifle Musket Plus Other Relevant Instruction
Guards, Pickets, Camps, and Marches (1847)
Manual of Arms for the Musket (1861)
Manual of Arms for the Rifle Musket (1861)
Manual of Battalion Drill for the Army of Tennessee
Silas' 1861 Manual of Arms for the Smoothbore Musket
Silas' Manual of Arms Booklet from Hardee's Revised Tactics (1861)
Silas' Manual of Arms for the Rifle Musket from the 1861 U.S. Tactics
The Army of Tennessee Booklet for Guards and Pickets
The Instruction for Skirmishers from Hardee's Revised and Improved Tactics (1861)
The Revised Manual of Battalion Drill for the Army of Tennessee
Upton
A New System of Infantry Tactics (1868)
A New System of Infantry Tactics (1875)
Viele
Handbook of Active Service (1861)
Wilcox
Rifles and Rifle Practice (1859)