Has anyone taken a look at this app yet? I haven't seen any reviews online for it.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id482...ign-mpt=uo%3D4
Mark Hiland
Louisville, KY
Hardee's iPhone App
Has anyone taken a look at this app yet? I haven't seen any reviews online for it.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id482...ign-mpt=uo%3D4
Mark Hiland
Louisville, KY
I got it. Not to bad having a tactic manual at my finger tips. Some of the animations are off, such as the movements for right or left flanks. I'm pretty sure these same animations were out on a website at one time.
Respectfully,
Jeremy Bevard
Sally Port Mess
Historic Fort Wayne Coalition
Old Northwest Volunteers
"If the men pursue the enemy as vigorously as they do the whores they will make very efficient soldiers."
Charles B. Haydon, 2nd Michigan-May 6, 1861
"The horse is dead, his bones beat to a fine powder, the powder used to make a fine biscuit, and the biscuit beaten back into a powder."
John Wickett
Thanks
Thanks for the reply. Maybe the free ebook versions are a better option then.
Mark Hiland
is it available for the Droid as well?
Sgt. Paul Wolbeck
33rd AL
Pvt. Ezra Walker
36th OH, Co G Salem Light Guards
Hard to imagine anyone would pay five bucks for that. You can look at the same videos here : http://www.10thbattalion.org/school.php It's surprising how much of the drill illustrated in these simple animations fails to comply with the very tactics supposedly demonstrated.
There's really no short cut to learning the drill. You have to crack the spine of a book. Read it, take notes, draw your own diagrams, get it into your head, then go to an event and give it a whirl. Make sure to bring a manual because you will need to refer to the text again. Guaranteed. Or you can stand there during some company drill at an event with a phone in your hand and try to show everyone from your tiny screen what they're supposed to be doing. This assumes that the animated drill in the video on your phone is correct and faithful to the text.
Which it's not.
Silas Tackitt
"While the original battle [Gettysburg] may arguably be considered the epicenter of the history of the war, the GAC reenactment is not the epicenter of the hobby. To confuse or equate the two is unfortunate. - Bernard Biederman, 6 July 2012
"Authenticity conflicts occur when reenactors from one end of the spectrum attend events at the other end of the spectrum then try to impose their own standards instead of event standards."
Is it best to carry an electronic device that contains drill manual access in ones haversack or knapsack? I attempted to research this subject to see how it was done by the actual participants in the Civil War using numerous search functions and could not find a reference to answer my question.
Tom
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