Foreword by Robert K. Krick
Preface
Prologue
CHAPTERS:
1 Antecedents: “When opposed to riflemen, it is the bravest who fall”
2 American Riflemen: “The wickedest corps in the Army”
3 Zouaves: “The bayonet will always be the queen of weapons”
4 Beginnings: “It was the province of the sharp shooter to shoot some body”
5 Seven Pines, Gaines’s Mill and South Mountain: “We skedadle & halt, fight & then skedadle again”
6 Winter at Fredericksburg: “We are always in the front of the brigade”
7 Chancellorsville: “It is a post of honor, not one of ease”
8 Gettysburg: “The mere raising of my hand would be the signal for a dozen Yankees to fire at me”
9 Manassas Gap: “Every shot took effect”
10 Winter 1863-64: “They were good soldiers, whoever they were”
11 Preparing for 1864: “The best men in the company”
12 The Wilderness: “For God’s sake go up and stop them”
13 Spotsylvania: “The hottest place I was ever in”
14 The North Anna and Cold Harbor: “Honor is nothing more than a puff of wind”
15 Monocacy and Fort Stevens: “A pretty stiff picket line”
16 Charles Town, Winchester, and Fisher’s Hill: “Take charge of the boys, do the best you can and give the yanks Hell”
17 Cedar Creek: “It must be confessed that we bought our victory at a dear rate”
18 Petersburg: “They done the thing up brown and deserve credit for it”
19 Assault on Hare’s Hill: “Knock down and drag out”
20 Fort Stedman: “It was better to attack than be attacked”
21 Decision at Petersburg: “These men will fight”
22 Weapons and Uniforms
23 Confederate Sharpshooters in the West
24 The Opposition: Skirmishers and Sharpshooters of the Army of the Potomac
25 The Open Order: The Boer War to WWI
26 Evaluating the Sharpshooters
Appendixes
A Testing the Sharpshooters’ Weapons
B Orders Issued by the Confederates Pertaining to the Sharpshooters
C The Assault on Fort Stedman: Numbers and organization
Bibliography
Index