Company I, Greenwood muskets, fired at target one hundred
yards. Best string, thirty-seven inches (4 shots); the muskets not so accurate
for short ranges as the Enfields; not so well sighted. Possibly the men are
somewhat afraid of them is one reason. I keep the men busy to prevent rusting.
This target practice seems to interest them very much.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 315
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