A system of target practice
Subtitle: For the use of troops when armed with the musket, rifle-musket, rifle, or carbine
By: prepared principally from the French, by Henry Heth
Contributors: Heth, Henry, 1825-1899
Publisher: H.C. Baird
Published: 1858
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Target practice; United States. Army; United States
Notes: "1 March 1858" -- T.p. verso.

"Published by order of the War Department" -- Cover.

"Chiefly a translation from the French ʻInstruction provisoire sur le tir, à l'usage des bataillons de chasseurs à pied.'." -- Preface.

A later issue, 1862, published at the Government Printing Office, Washington.

Reprinted edition, 1998, published by J.W. Henry Pub., Ind.

Also available online from the Internet Archive.  Address as of January 31, 2014:  https://archive.org/details/systemoftargetpr00henr.
Table of contents: title: First lesson : Exercise preparatory to firing. Aiming ; Position of a skirmisher aiming, standing ; Position of a soldier kneeling and aiming ; Keeping the piece steady when pulling the trigger ; Simulated firing with caps ; Simulated firing with blank cartridges ; Estimating distances; title: Second lesson : Firing with ball cartridges at different distances, and formation of classes; title: Third lesson : Firing as skirmishers; title: Fourth lesson : Firing by file, by company or rank, and by platoon; title: List of forms : I. Record of company firing, classes, &c ; II. Record of company firing as skirmishers ; III. Record of company firing by file, by company or rank, and by platoon.