Hardee's Tactics Recommendations

[Whitworth27]

I would like to buy a reprint of Hardee's Tactics. I have found multiple reprints while searching online, but I do not know which one to buy. The number of pages can vary greatly from one reprint to another. Can anyone recommend a good reprint of Hardee's Tactics?

 

[RedRover]

Blockade Runner advertises reprints of the complete two volumes of the 1855 US editions for 26 and change.

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Hardee revised the system slightly, particularly the manual of arms, etc., for the Confederate editions published by Goetzel in 1861-63 for CSA troops armed with rifle muskets (three band). I don't know of any reprints of the Confederate editions, but they are online.

 

[RedRover]

Here's an online copy of Hardee's Confederate edition, both volumes.

Catalog Record: Rifle and infantry tactics

Regarding the Confederate versions:

From August, 1862 the entire US Army, etc. employed Casey's tactics.

Casey's Infantry Tactics, Reprint-1507

www.buttonbaron.com

 

[USS ALASKA]

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I searching for Gilhams and Hardee (1855 and 61) books but I didn't found anything good e.g. on Amazon. Any ideas where I can buy theses?

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HTHs,
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[thomas aagaard]

From August, 1862 the entire US Army, etc. employed Casey's tactics.

Casey's Infantry Tactics, Reprint-1507

www.buttonbaron.com

In theory at least...
It took time to print books and in august and September the federals in the east where rather busy, so most likely the few changes where not implemented until later that year.

And some units (like the Wisconsin regiments in the iron brigade) never actually changed their drill fully.
They prefers a few elements in the manual of arms found in Chandlers Wisconsin drill book that they had used when they where first organized.

(one is how you fix bayonet... it was done like the manual of arms for muskets... and this is actually one of the things Hardee' changed for his "complete, correct and revised" edition. It is simply a better way to do it than what is found in the manual of arms for rifles, when armed with a "musket length" weapon)