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MrAmerican
04-21-2015, 10:55 PM
So with the awesome, and I repeat AWESOME dev George helping out the "Civil War Drill Manual" discussion that has been going on for a couple months now I decided to release all the links I've been compiling for any of you future leaders to study if you're interested in the basics, (some links go into extreme detail), or just want to refresh your mind, then these links are for you, only for the low price of $10.99 a month... I'm just playing here they are: [Note some of the stuff is more towards the Union side, but I hope that the majority of things fall in between]

GeorgeCrecy's recent thread about the Parade of Battalion. Very Interesting :) :
http://www.warofrightsforum.com/showthread.php?418-Parade-of-the-Battalion

An actual drill manual... contains a lot of "fluff" and stuff that probably won't be added into the game, such as Armed and Unarmed inspections certains actions which are just for show... but goes into A LOT of detail on drill:
http://acws.co.uk/gilhams/

Army Abbreviations. In case anything comes up and you don't know what it means. These are modern ranks, but the majority of them are the same as they were in the Civil War.
http://www.cem.va.gov/cem/docs/abbreviations/ranks_army.pdf

Civil War Organization and Rank. A kind of russian doll look on things, what goes into what and what is under what, ect. EX: Company contains x amount of men and x amount of enlisted x amount of officers and ect.
http://www.townofelbridge.com/Organization%20and%20Rank.pdf

Army of the Potomac Prezi. Very helpful visual presentation that shows all the different parts and regiments of the Army of the Potomac. This was posted some time earlier by someone on the forums and they also included one for Confederates... If I find that one I will post it.
https://prezi.com/ekkbj1xdoaay/army-of-the-potomac/

Like the Civil War Organization link but goes into a bit more detail on terminology and organization. Also shows you how special units are organized such as calavary, artillery, engineers, and even sharpshooters.
http://www.angelfire.com/wv/wasec5/formations.html

A simple yet informative animation that shows the basic basic commands and formations that a leader should know. Refer to the ACWS link above if you wish to go into more detail. This was posted on the forums a while ago, and who ever it was thank you because it was very helpful when I started out learning this stuff.
http://www.10thpa.com/drill1.shtml

A VERY simple diagram on the parts of a musket... does not go into to much detail but gives you a basic understanding.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Musketparts.jpg

If I find any more links myself then I will post them here.
If you have your own links or want to add to this, link or text, then feel free to do so down below.

Contribute to the education of the community in the art of Civil War Drill today! *applause* *whistle* :p

Hope you enjoyed.

Also some shameless advertising:
I had time on my hand so I made a google spreadsheet that listed all the ranks/number of people in those ranks in one Regiment/Brigade/Company... I used 1st NJ because of my NJ Pride :p
[Note the Union did not use J (Juliet) as a company name because it looked to similar to I (India), so the skip over J is intentional)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cgAhDcMfdJmBpwQ53kuYPiIGSi8-20qbAEGYZb7ki8Y/edit?usp=sharing

Rithal
04-21-2015, 11:29 PM
Good job at agglomerating all of this information! It will definitely keep some of our newer friends in the loop.

Bravescot
04-21-2015, 11:46 PM
Great to see all this info :D. Gives me lots to chew through.

McClellan
04-22-2015, 04:45 AM
Great job.

William
04-22-2015, 11:23 AM
Nice one thanks

MrAmerican Sir

Paul
04-25-2015, 02:42 AM
That google spreadsheet regiment template. Did you make the template yourself? Or did you find it elsewhere? I wish to use something similar.

Caserta34
04-25-2015, 05:51 AM
Very cool mr America

Historical Player
04-29-2015, 02:45 AM
Awesome! That is so cool of you to do. It gives us people with no lives something to do. :)

MrAmerican
05-10-2015, 10:20 PM
That google spreadsheet regiment template. Did you make the template yourself? Or did you find it elsewhere? I wish to use something similar.

I did make it myself... lol many hours of work and research. You can use it if you want, anyone regimental leader can use it.

EDIT:
Also, thanks for all the positive feedback everyone :)

MrAmerican
11-13-2015, 02:37 AM
bumping for the new people

A. P. Hill
11-13-2015, 04:41 AM
Good job Sir!

:salute:

CivilLetsPlays
11-13-2015, 05:25 AM
Really cool stuff you put together!

Most of what I've learned about Civil War drill I learned from my reenacting unit, we use Hardee's Manual of Arms. But thanks for the links I'll make sure to check them out!

thomas aagaard
11-13-2015, 08:50 AM
If you want manuals, this is the page to use:
http://www.zipcon.net/~silas/links.htm


It got most of what is out there...