Here's a question that only occurred to me today - is it ever specified what specific type of sergeant Jake Featherston was during his service with the CS Artillery?
To the best of my understanding he holds a position roughly equivalent to that of a Staff Sergeant in the modern US Army ('Professional Advisor' to a very green lieutenant and leading sergeant in the battery), but I'm not sure that would be his actual rank in the US Army of 1914 - our only wholly American working model for the Confederate States Army of AMERICAN FRONT.
I think he might well have ranked as a First Sergeant, but am not sufficiently familiar with the American army of the period to be certain.
May I please ask if anyone more expert has any thoughts on the topic?
To the best of my understanding he holds a position roughly equivalent to that of a Staff Sergeant in the modern US Army ('Professional Advisor' to a very green lieutenant and leading sergeant in the battery), but I'm not sure that would be his actual rank in the US Army of 1914 - our only wholly American working model for the Confederate States Army of AMERICAN FRONT.
I think he might well have ranked as a First Sergeant, but am not sufficiently familiar with the American army of the period to be certain.
May I please ask if anyone more expert has any thoughts on the topic?