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Lee's Sharpshooters Hardcover - 2001

by W. S. Dunlop


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Lee’s Sharpshooters is William Dunlop’s’ enthralling chronicle of his command over Robert E. Lee’s strategic sharpshooter battalion during the Civil War. Dunlop recounts the training processes; the ordnance tests and the marksmanship exercises the soldiers went through to become skilled and confident skirmishers. These innovative units didn’t turn the tide of the war, but did give rise to the specialized soldier whose “intelligence, marksmanship and unfaltering courage” was remarkable.

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In early 1864, Robert E. Lee began experimenting with tactical innovations for the upcoming spring campaign. To this end, he ordered the organization of sharpshooter battalions. William S. Dunlop was the commander of the sharpshooter battalion formed from the 1st, 12th, 13th, and 14th South Carolina, and Orr's Rifles. In Lee's Sharpshooters he chronicles the training processes, the ordnance tests and the marksmanship exercises the soldiers went through to become skilled and confident skirmishers. Robert E. Lee's decision didn't turn the tide of the war, but it did give rise to the specialized soldier whose " intelligence, marksmanship and unfaltering courage" was remarkable. Contributions from other battalions such as those of Lt. Robert F. Ward from Davis's Mississippi brigade provide first hand accounts of the sharpshooters' part in the battles of Wilderness and Spotsylvania.

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  • Title Lee's Sharpshooters
  • Author W. S. Dunlop
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Digital Scanning, Scituate, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-07-17
  • ISBN 9781582186139 / 1582186138
  • Weight 1.84 lbs (0.83 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.49 x 6.09 x 1.41 in (24.10 x 15.47 x 3.58 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.7
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