The Army of Tennessee
Handy Booklet
of
Rules and Regulations Governing
Guards and Pickets


    This is small booklet containing rules and regulations for guards and pickets from the pens of Gilham, Butterfield, and Mahan.  Feel free to download and use this booklet which was created for use in the field.  You won't find a better booklet of information for the price, but you can pay much more for lesser booklets.  As far as printing and reprinting the booklet is concerned :

    All rights reserved. Liberal and extensive distribution of this FREE pamphlet is encouraged. However, reassimilating, rearranging, cutting, pasting, reorganizing and/or otherwise taking credit for any part of this work without the written permission of the author is prohibited. Hey, I put some serious time into this pamphlet!

   All text found in the booklet derives directly from period sources and citations to every paragraph are noted for the reader's reference.  

    The booklet has been published to the internet in two different formats :  (1) standard and (2) booklet.  The standard, side-by-side version allows the viewer to examine each page in a sequential order.  Each printed sheet contains consecutive numbering.   The booklet version is formatted for double sided printing.  The pages do not become consecutive until printed and folded into a booklet. 

Printing Instructions for the standard version :

    The standard version requires no special instructions for printing.  It is a "what you see is what you get" document.  It's a good reference when you are looking for something in particular from the convenience of your monitor.  As a printout, it's not as good as the booklet, but it works.  Click here, open the pdf document, print it.

Printing Instructions for the Booklet :

   This document has been specially formatted to print as a booklet.   This pdf booklet requires double sided printing as well as a pdf reader.  Any printer can produce double sided product.  There are thirty-four pages which requires seventeen sheets of paper.  You need to perform two printings.

    First, click on this link to open the pdf booklet.  Open the document and select print.   Check the print properties making certain that the print orientation is on LANDSCAPE, not portrait.  SELECT PAGES ONE THROUGH SIX TO PRINT.  Print them.  Don't rearrange the sheets.  Reinsert the sheets into your printer making certain that : (1) the blank sides will be printed next, (2) the first page printed previously will be the first page printed in this second printing, and (3) the edge of the paper which exited the printer initially will now be the last edge to leave printer. 

    It sounds harder to describe than it really is.  I just scoop my first set of copies, flip them 180 degrees counter clockwise, and drop them into the paper feeder of my printer. 

    Second, SELECT PAGES SEVEN THROUGH TWELVE TO PRINT.  Print them.  If you've done it right, you've got a two sided booklet.  I printed a booklet for myself using these same instructions so I know it works. - Silas


Link to other Civil War drill manuals
Link to the AoT Manual of Battalion Drill / Link to the NSA Forum


Hosted by:

Major Silas Tackitt,

Assistant Inspector General,
Army of Tennessee / North South Alliance
and
compiler of
Guides Posts,
the new manual of Civil War drill


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