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Marksmen Wanted Bucktail recruiting broadside.
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Marksmen Wanted Bucktail recruiting broadside.

Credit: Courtesy of Ronn Palm

"Marksmen Wanted!" So trumpeted the April 17, 1861 recruiting posters Thomas L. Kane used to raise a regiment of sharpshooters from among Pennsylvania's backwoods" hunters. Required to pass a marksmen test for entry into the unit, the Bucktails eventually were armed with the latest rifled-musket technology. From their start in the early days of the war till they mustered out in June of 1864, the Bucktails rendered stellar service in nearly every significant battle in the Eastern Theatre.

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