In the spring of 1862, the Army of the Potomac deployed a unique regiment, Colonel Hiram Berdan’s 1st u.s. Sharpshooters. The previous winter, Berdan had recruited the Union’s best volunteer marksmen hoping their long-range skills could vitally aid the Union cause. Some U.S. Army officers doubted Berdan’s experiment. Pessimistically, they guessed that northern sharpshooters could neither hit targets at extreme range nor could they provide any tactical worth on the battlefield. Contrary to expectations, Berdan’s U.S. Sharpshooters performed splendidly during their first major campaign, helping the Army of the Potomac break the Confederate hold on Yorktown. Glowing reports from northern newspaper reporters inflated tales of the sharpshooters’ skills, but the combination of unexpected talent and encouraging media coverage transformed sharpshooting from a despised craft into a permanent army tactic.
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