If, however, the young men who are graduating from our high schools in the different States should be skilled riflemen the country can rest content with a small standing army, knowing that in case of war it can put into the field at short notice a force of volunteers whose skill in rifle shooting will enable them to be fully the equal of any army which may be brought against them.
"A report on the feasibility and advisability of some policy to inaugurate a system of rifle practice throughout the public schools of the country"
George W. Wingate Ammon B. Critchfield
Beyond the villages, our riflemen found protection in quickly scraped holes in the ground.
""And they thought we wouldn't fight""
Floyd Gibbons
We, also, had lost heavily, and of our brave riflemen far more than we could by any means afford to spare.
"Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman"
Willie Walker Caldwell