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Hand-Book for Active Service; Edgar Viele 1861
« on: November 21, 2013, 11:39:00 PM »
I was cruising the UVIC library with my Alumnae card in hand, and I found this book. I recall seeing that West Point sponsored online versions of many old military classics so I searched and found it online through google books;

https://archive.org/stream/handbookforacti00vielgoog#page/n21/mode/2up

or at;   https://archive.org/details/handbookforactiv00vielrich

Written in 1861 by A National Guard engineering officer, Edgar Viele, as a field manual to introduce basic soldiering to the vast hords of enthusiastic but ignorant volunteers gathering for the Civil War. Google says that it was published at one time as two separate volumes, but here is the whole enchilada.

Delmonico will appreciate the 15 or pages of field recipes designed for the military ration plus what would likely be available to foragers.  There is a two page primer for making various sorts of musket cartridges.  The book starts with the mustering of recruits and their initial drilling, then on to marching, making camp, guard duty, and field manoeuvres, with a whole section on field fortifications. There is a lengthy section on field artillery, but very little on cavalry.
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Re: Hand-Book for Active Service; Edgar Viele 1861
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2013, 08:07:45 AM »
Hi,

I have already looked on Amazon.com and the book does not seem to exist there ... Is there a place to order it?

Does it show anything on Maynard loading?

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Re: Hand-Book for Active Service; Edgar Viele 1861
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2013, 08:33:16 AM »
I just downloaded it from that site as a pdf. It looks great!
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Re: Hand-Book for Active Service; Edgar Viele 1861
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Re: Hand-Book for Active Service; Edgar Viele 1861
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2013, 10:19:08 AM »
Hi,

I have already looked on Amazon.com and the book does not seem to exist there ... Is there a place to order it?

Does it show anything on Maynard loading?

TTFN,

http://www.amazon.ca/Hand-Book-Active-Service-Containing-Instructions/dp/1173045937

Nothing on the Maynard. To find the book;- I just posted an alternative link in my OP. You can download it FREE!!!!

You can get it new from abebooks for $10;

 http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?kn=hand-book+for+active+service&sts=t&x=61&y=9
NCOWS #1154, SCORRS, STORM, BROW, 1860 Henry, Dirty Rat 502, CHINOOK COUNTRY
THE SUBLYME & HOLY ORDER OF THE SOOT (SHOTS)
Those who are no longer ignorant of History may relive it,
without the Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
With apologies to George Santayana & W. S. Churchill

"As Mark Twain once put it, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”

 

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