This is a slightly enlarged, but much enhanced, update of the manual originally published in 2005.  There are twenty-five different illustrations of drill included in this sixty-six page manual.  Feel free to download and use this manual.  It has been created for use in the field.  You won't find a better manual for the price, but you can pay much more for a lesser manual.  As far as printing and reprinting the manual 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!

   Paragraph numbering in the body of this booklet is to the School of the Battalion as found in Hardee’s Revised and Improved Tactics (Goetzel, 1863) which mirrors the paragraph numbering found in the School of the Battalion of the 1861 U.S. Tactics.  The U.S. Tactics was recently reprinted by Stackpole Press as the 1863 U.S. Tactics.  Consequently, paragraph numbering is the same in Hardee's Revised Tactics and the 1863 U.S. Tactics.  

     To give the manual wider coverage and understanding, the topic heading for each manoeuver detailed includes corresponding paragraph numbers for the School of the Battalion in Casey’s U.S. Tactics (1862-3), in Gilham's Manual of Instruction for Volunteers and Militia (1860), and in Dom Dal Bello’s Parade, Inspection, and Evolutions of the Line (4^th Ed., 1998).  Also included are paragraphs from the C.S. Regulations and from the manuals produced by Gilham, Scott, Coppee and Morris.

    The manual has been published to the internet in two different formats :  side-by-side and booklet.  The 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 side-by-side :

    The "side-by-side" requires no special instructions for printing.  It is a "what you see is what you get" document.

Printing Instructions for the Booklet

   This document has been specially formatted to print as a booklet.   The pdf booklet requires double sided printing as well as a pdf reader.  Any printer can produce double sided product.  There are thirty-four total pages which can be printed on seventeen sheets of paper when printed on both sides.  If your printer is single sided as mine is, select pages one through seventeen for printing.  Check the properties and make certain that the printing orientation is on LANDSCAPE, not portrait.  Print the seventeen pages.  Then reinsert the seventeen pages for printing on the unprinted side.  Select pages eighteen through thirty-four.  Print and take a gander at it.

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