New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site

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Soldiers of the 7th Massachusetts Regiment demonstrate how the muskets were fired in volleys. Smoothbore flintlock muskets could be devastating weapons when massed fire was used against enemy formations. This tactic compensated for the inherent inaccuracy of the smoothbore.
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