OOPS!
Oops!
Just realized that I asked the wrong question to SeekHer-about maybe locating Whitworths in Britain;should have been asked of UKarmourer...
Well,the question still stands...
With so many Whitworths turned out,and so relative few sent to America-they have to be somewhere???
Any...
this 'n that...
Hello SeekHer and Gary,
SeekHer;Since you are in the U.K. I've often wondered if locating a Whitworth rifle in Britain is remotely a possibility?
They are so decidely uncommon to be found over here...
A few years ago I was in Limerick,Ireland and was amazed to see the old...
The Confederate Whitworth Sharpshooters
Thanks for the book plug again SeekHer.
I have a copy of the Ray book concerning the Confederate sharpshooter batallions(he quotes and footnotes me in it)and since my little book was first printed back in 1989 it has been cited in several "sniper" books...
Thanks...
Hello Seek Her,
Am new to this forum so don't really know what is/is'nt allowed so wrote about it in the 3rd.person.
Yes;I'm the author of this book(The Confederate Whitworth Sharpshooters).
Thanks for putting in the web address.
"Parachutist"
New member
I'm a new member interested in most aspects of military sniping,especially the Confederates who used Whitworth rifles.
I am former military(retired)and served in the paratroops(3 years)and Army Special Forces(24 years,lt.wpns.& intel.).
I also spent a decade teaching American...
The Confederate Whitworth Sharpshooters
I've just read on another Forum topic that "not since a century ago when in 1899 Major W.S.Dunlop penned:'Lee's sharpshooters or the Forefront of Battle has a book been written on the Confederate sharpshooter batallions' "...
Well,back in 1989 J.A...
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