This is a free booklet of the manual of arms for the rifle musket which anyone can download and print. The text derives directly from the Goetzel edition of Hardee's Revised Tactics (1861).  It is richly illustrated from period drawings and is supplemented by other contemporary manuals.  The actual drawings from the Goetzel edition were copies of copies of copies of drawings originally used in Hardee's Light Infantry Tactics (1855).  Since those drawings are of the beau ideal soldier using the shorter rifle instead of the longer rifle musket, I used as many clean period drawings as possible which contained other beaus using rifle muskets.

    If your impression is Confederate, you need this booklet.  Although designed as the manual of arms to be used by the reenactors portraying the converted artillerymen of Crutchfield's Confederate Brigade at the reenactment commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Sailor's Creek, it is perfectly applicable to all Confederate reenactors who use Hardee's manual.

    This booklet is free to download.  It has been created for use in the field.  Don't worry if the rain soaks it, if you need fire starter, if you use it as necessary paper or maybe you crumple the pages.  Should it become destroyed, print another when you get home.  It's that simple.  You won't find a better manual for the price, but you can pay much more for a lesser manual.  As far as printing and reprinting the manual is concerned :

    All rights reserved. Liberal and extensive distribution of this FREE pamphlet is encouraged. However, reassimilating, rearranging, cutting, pasting, reorganizing and/or otherwise taking credit for any part of this work without the written permission of the author is prohibited. Hey, I put some serious time into this pamphlet!

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