Sharpshooters, as a separate command, we learn, are now being organized in all the army brigades, to act as skirmishers in action, to be thrown forward instead of details from the regiments. Each corps of sharpshooters is to comprise a battalion of five companies. One has just been organized in General Mahone's Brigade.
Richmond Whig
May 13, 1864
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