| James Thacher - 1827 - 494 páginas
...stout and hardy men ; many of them exceeding six feet in height. They are dressed in white frocks, or rifle shirts, and round hats. These men are remarkable...certainty at two hundred yards distance. At a review, a company of them, while on a quick advance, fired their balls into objects of seven inches diameter,... | |
| William Thompson Read - 1870 - 596 páginas
...hardy men; many of them exceeding six feet in height. They are dressed in white frocks or rifle-shirts, and round hats. These men are remarkable for the accuracy...certainty at two hundred yards distance. At a review, a company of them, while on a quick advance, fired their balls into objects of seven inches diameter,... | |
| John Thomas Scharf - 1879 - 688 páginas
...stout and hardy men ; many of them exceeding six feet in height. They are dressed in white frocks, or rifle shirts, and round hats. These men are remarkable...certainty at two hundred yards distance. At a review, a company of them, while on a quick advance, fired their balls into objects of seven inches diameter,... | |
| John Thomas Scharf - 1879 - 678 páginas
...and hardy men ; many of them exceeding six feet in height. They are dressed in white frocks, or riHe shirts, and round hats. These men are remarkable for...certainty at two hundred yards distance. At a review, a company of them, while on a quick advance, fired their balls into objects of seven inches diameter,... | |
| Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, George Edward Reed, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban - 1880 - 884 páginas
...stout and hardy men ; many of them exceeding six feet in height. They are dressed in white frocks or rifle shirts and round hats. These men are remarkable...certainty at two hundred yards distance. At a review, a company of them, while on a quick advance, fired their balls into objects of seven inches diameter,... | |
| 1883 - 576 páginas
...remarkable for the accuracy of their aim. At a review, a company of them, while on a quick advance, fired their balls into objects of seven inch diameter, at a distance of two hundred and fifty yards. Their shot have frequently proved fatal to British officers and soldiers."... | |
| Frederick Charles Johnson - 1887 - 278 páginas
...the regiment to which Pence belonged were thus described at the time in Thacher's Militarg Journal: striking a mark with great certainty at two hundred...into objects of seven inch diameter, at a distance of 250 yards. They are now stationed on our lines, and their shot have frequently proved fatal to British... | |
| John Franklin Meginness - 1888 - 434 páginas
...exceeding six feet in height. They are dressed in rifle shirts and round hats. These men are remarkable for accuracy of their aim, striking a mark with great...into objects of seven inch diameter, at a distance of 250 yards. They are now stationed on our lines, and their shot have frequently proved fatal to British... | |
| John Hugh Campbell - 1892 - 826 páginas
...stout and hardy men, many of them exceeding six feet in height. They are dressed in white frocks, or rifle shirts, and round hats. These men are remarkable...certainty at two hundred yards distance. At a review, a company of them, while on a quick advance, fired their balls into objects of seven inches diameter,... | |
| Morton Luther Montgomery - 1894 - 310 páginas
...hardy men, many of them exceeding six feet in height. They are dressed in white frocks or rifle-shirts and round hats. These men are remarkable for the accuracy...certainty at two hundred yards distance. At a review, while on a quick advance, a company of them fired their balls into objects of seven , nohcs diameter... | |
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