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The standard matter-of-fact Osprey MAA, but too light on examples of unit's operational history to illustrate the principles of their armament & training. At one point the position of the USSS on the flank at Gettysburg comes up. It would've been a small effort to mention their clash with the 15th Alabama on its way to Little Round Top & go from there*.
On the plus side, it situates the Civil War sharpshooter in an ambiguous position between the skirmisher of the smoothbore era and today's camouflaged snipers. There is room for factoids such as the dire effect of too many fried meals on the endurance of men who often had to do more back-and-forth marching to maintain a good position relative to their own order of battle as well as the enemy line: copying the German habit of eating the meat boiled with as many vegetables as possible alleviated much.
This is my all-time favourite example of "eating your greens" that doesn't feature scurvy.
See also :
[bc:Storming Little Round Top: The 15th Alabama And Their Fight For The High Ground, July 2, 1863|1207350|Storming Little Round Top The 15th Alabama And Their Fight For The High Ground, July 2, 1863|Phillip Thomas Tucker|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1347560491s/1207350.jpg|1195706][b:Storming Little Round Top: The 15th Alabama And Their Fight For The High Ground, July 2, 1863|1207350|Storming Little Round Top The 15th Alabama And Their Fight For The High Ground, July 2, 1863|Phillip Thomas Tucker|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1347560491s/1207350.jpg|1195706]
"The Civil War Diet" (Blacksburg, Virginia, 2005), Master thesis by Matthew Brennan
avaliable online at : https://theses.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05262005-122146/.../CivilWarDiet.pd
On the plus side, it situates the Civil War sharpshooter in an ambiguous position between the skirmisher of the smoothbore era and today's camouflaged snipers. There is room for factoids such as the dire effect of too many fried meals on the endurance of men who often had to do more back-and-forth marching to maintain a good position relative to their own order of battle as well as the enemy line: copying the German habit of eating the meat boiled with as many vegetables as possible alleviated much.
This is my all-time favourite example of "eating your greens" that doesn't feature scurvy.
See also :
[bc:Storming Little Round Top: The 15th Alabama And Their Fight For The High Ground, July 2, 1863|1207350|Storming Little Round Top The 15th Alabama And Their Fight For The High Ground, July 2, 1863|Phillip Thomas Tucker|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1347560491s/1207350.jpg|1195706][b:Storming Little Round Top: The 15th Alabama And Their Fight For The High Ground, July 2, 1863|1207350|Storming Little Round Top The 15th Alabama And Their Fight For The High Ground, July 2, 1863|Phillip Thomas Tucker|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1347560491s/1207350.jpg|1195706]
"The Civil War Diet" (Blacksburg, Virginia, 2005), Master thesis by Matthew Brennan
avaliable online at : https://theses.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05262005-122146/.../CivilWarDiet.pd