A Civil War Musketeer

At the beginning of the war (1642) the musketeer was in the minority in most regiments of the day. This was for several reasons, the first (not unlike today) being cost. There was also the training that a musketeer required to use his weapon in accordance with the thirty-seven prescribed postures used at the time.

Within the next nine years however this arm of service would rise to replace the pike as the