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The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth (Modern War Studies)

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 | #1434346 in Books |  2008-09-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .98 x6.02 x9.30l,1.27 | File type: PDF | 296 pages

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||9 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting history but very little personal experience to back it up|By Charlie LURP|The author seems to be totally convinced a smooth bore musket is as accurate at 100 yards as a rifled musket. Not once did he give any proof that he had personally fired either to determine this. Either weapon is easily available today in historically accurate reproductions. A smooth bore mus| |“Hess hits a bull’s-eye with this fresh, provocative book.”—Daniel Sutherland, author of Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Confederate Community, 1861–1865 “A most welcome, meticulous, important, and easy-to-read

The Civil War's single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so we've been told for years. Noted historian Earl J. Hess forcefully challenges that claim, offering a new, clear-eyed, and convincing assessment of the rifle musket's actual performance on the battlefield and its impact on the course of the Civil War.

Many contemporaries were impressed with the new weapon's increased range of 500 yards, compared to the smoothbore musket's range of 100 ...

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