This morning when
our detail was relieved from picket, we were marched to brigade headquarters
and put to target shooting. This is to be done regularly from now on, in order
to give the boys practice. To encourage good marksmanship a reward is given;
those who hit the bull's-eye are excused from picket duty, once for every time
they hit the mark.
Source: Alexander G.
Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 153
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