Our corps of sharpshooters went out today target practising. We shoot a distance of 500 yards offhand. Some very good shooting was done. S...

I hit the bull's-eye to-day. We are practising every day up to the 23d. SOURCE: Louis Leon,  Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier ,...

A FIELD DAY. We had been drilling and going through the motions of artillery firing every day for a month, and a few days ago it was thoug...

Camp Maskell , December 28, 1862. Dearest :— Sunday evening. Captain Hunter brings me the spurs and pictures; for which, thanks. I will...

On Christmas my wife's cousins, Lieutenant Nelson and privates Ed and Ike Cook and Jim McKell 1 dined with me; all of Company D, Eigh...

Cairo. This is the twilight of our first day here. We started from Peoria last Wednesday at 11 a. m. amid such a scene as I never saw befor...

Drilled co A. M. French artilery practice all day. Mirage SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company G, 33rd Iowa Infantry,”  Annals ...

5 P. M. French practice firing about 3 or 4 miles out in the Gulf. Rec mail just at dark. SOURCE: “Diary of John S. Morgan, Company ...

Target practice continues. I did a thing that worried me this A. M. I saw two soldiers sitting on post. It was contrary to orders. I direct...

Company I, Greenwood muskets, fired at target one hundred yards. Best string, thirty-seven inches (4 shots); the muskets not so accurate fo...

I set the men to drilling in the new target practice. Rode with Bottsford over to see Mrs. Lilley, an old lady whose husband, James Lilley,...

We are target firing now. The Enfields are a little better sighted than the muskets; the muskets have most power and the longest range. Com...

Camp Jones, Flat Top Mountain. — Cold, dull, and P. M., rainy. Drilled A. M. Rode with Adjutant Avery and practiced pistol firing in the P....

Camp On Flat Top, Virginia , June 12, 1862. Dearest : — I began a letter to you yesterday intending to finish it after the mail came in...

Drizle rain all P. M. regt. went out shot 1 rond at target called on Cap Boydston, no better had a talk with 3 cesesh girls there. S...

Went down to the creek and practiced a while with our revolvers. Played chess in the evening. SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary ...

This morning when our detail was relieved from picket, we were marched to brigade headquarters and put to target shooting. This is to be do...

Rain, sunshine, snow, very windy, has been the weather for the past week. At times very disagreeable. Target practise has taken the place o...