Works Cited

1. James M. McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, New York, Oxford University Press, 1997, 33.

2. Dean S. Thomas, Roundball to Rimfire: A History of Civil War Ammunition, Part One, Gettysburg, Thomas Publications, 1
997, 38.

3. Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns, and Ken Burns, The Civil War: An Illustrated History, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1990, 130.

4. William C. Davis, Rebels and Yankees: The Fighting Men of the Civil War, New York, Smithmark, 1991, 54.

5. Thomas, Roundball to Rimfire, 10.

6. Reports of the Experiments with Small Arms for the Military Service by Officers of the Ordnance Department, Washington, A.O.P Nicholson, 1856, 117.

7. Thomas, Roundball to Rimfire, 24.

8. Ibid, 27.

9. Ibid, 64.

10. Ibid, 24.

11. The Ordnance Manual for the Use of the Officers of the United States, Third Edition, 1861, 264.

12. Ibid, 268

13. Thomas, Roundball to Rimfire, 47.

14. Ordnance Manual, Third Edition, 266-267

15. Thomas, Roundball to Rimfire, 62.

16. Ibid, 67.

17.  Ibid, 61,

18. Ward, The Civil War, 265.

19. Gregory A. Coco, The Civil War Infantryman: In Camp, on the March, and in Battle, Gettysburg, Thomas Publications, 1996, 101.

20. Ibid, 73.

21. Ibid, 99.

22. Ibid, 104.

23. Ibid, 105.

24. Ibid, 103

25. Ibid, 105

26. Ibid, 105.

27. Ibid, 105.

28. Ibid, 92

29. Ibid, 103.