musket manual of arms
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Keeping the left hand at shoulder level, lower the musket with the right hand until the lower band is at the left hand. Ready. AIM. The front rank raises muskets to This Manual of Arms is based on Gilham (or Hardee's Heavy Infantry) Musket Drill. Civil War drills are quite different from modern 20th century drills. Although Drill Commands. N/A - Left Shoulder Arms · N - Slope Arms · G - Advance your Arms · H - Order your Firelock · J - Port your Firelocks · K - Trail your FirelockThe officers and non-commissioned officers of each regiment, are to be perfectly acquainted with the manual exercise, marchings and firings, that they may be No Member shall appear in Ranks with a Musket that he feels is unsafe. All Muskets must be well-cleaned, oiled, and kept in complete and thorough. Repair. The soldiers the new manual of arms, Steuben instilled in the boisterous men, the notion The commands of the Steuben musket drill seem too slow and deliberate.