南北和日俄的“齐射”必定会存在若干案例，但有许多恐怕还是只有齐射之名，和拿战时代一样，很多实际上的自由射击被笼统称之为齐射。file fire（各纵列分别自行射击）存在于条令，应用也不算少
File fire was frequently used in practice, however. Not only did many attempts to use more controlled fire quickly devolve into file fire, but there is also at least one case on record of an army commander specifically ordering its use. On August 19 1864, Maj. Gen. Oliver 0. Howard, who then commanded the Army of the Tennessee, ordered that Gen. William B. Hazen ensconce two regiments in a "secure place near the skirmish line." These were ordered to fire by files for half an hour. The seeming fury and confusion that would necessarily result was intended to give the impression of a general assault. Howard of course intended the real blow to fall elsewhere. File firing, though not encouraged aged by tacticians, tended to be commonplace on the field of battle. Testifying before the military commission set up to investigate the evacuation of Maryland Heights and subsequent surrender of Harpers Ferry during Lee's Maryland Campaign, Maj. William H. Baird explained that it was "almost impossible" to get inexperienced troops to fire by volleys when under fire. Regardless of the officers' efforts, they almost always fire by file instead.
Brent Nosworthy. The Bloody Crucible of Courage: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil War (Kindle Locations 3322-3328). Kindle Edition.
71 Admittedly a few cases of sustained regular volley fire may be quoted, e.g. Arnold’s from Turner’s Gap; A Coy 17th North Carolina at Bentonville (Moseley, p. 383, and some other examples, pp.383-5); 22nd Massachusetts at Fredericksburg {Thirty-fifth Massachusetts, p. 88). Even so, there is a problem of terminology here, since a prolonged fire at will is sometimes described in the sources as a single volley. Gustavus Smith, p. 51, cites a ‘volley’ which lasted fifteen minutes!
Griffith, Battle Tactics of the American Civil War, p. 211
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