Two New Books

We will be adding two new books to the resources page of the website:

Robert W. Shuey's Socket Bayonets of the Great Powers: A Collectors Guide - a thorough pictorial guide to socket bayonets from the United States, Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. The book is limited, unfortunately, by the lack of two sets of information important to understanding the combat employment (and simulation) of these weapons - there is no data on either the length or weight of the bayonets pictured.

Lieutenant Colonel (Provisional Army of Vrginia) R. Milton Cary's Skirmishers' Drill and Bayonet Exercise of 1861, published as a facsimile edition. This is a translation of the French Army bayonet technique, originally intended for light infantry (chasseurs-a-pied as opposed to line regiments or grenadiers). It was published for the use of the volunteer and elite militia units of the Southern states at the start of the war of 1861-1865.