Infantry Tactics: For The Instruction, Exercise, and Maneuvers of The Soldier, a Company, Line of Skirmishes, Battalion, Brigade, or Corps D'Armée

Published by D. Van Nostrand, New York, 1862

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Three volumes. 32mos. Publisher's decorative dark green cloth boards with the Great Seal of the United States stamped in blind on the boards and gilt lettering and a gilt eagle emblem on the spines. All three volumes are illustrated with engraved plates, diagrams, and charts, some of which fold out, including a fold-out frontispiece chart in Volume One. Owner name of Captain Hiram Rollins on front free endpaper of Volume Three. The boards and spine all show some wear, hinges on Volume One starting, a stain on the front board of Volume Two, Volume Three with an abrasion along the bottom of the spine, the outer panel of the frontispiece has torn off, scattered foxing throughout, overall good or better. Casey's highly influential book of infantry tactics used by both sides of the American Civil War; a revised edition was issued in 1863 specifically for use by African-American soldiers. Captain Hiram Rollins, of Dover, N.H., served in Company D of the Second New Hampshire regiment during the Civil War. He was injured in the battle of Bull Run by a musket ball to the arm but managed to survive, going on to be promoted to Major, then to Brevet Lieut.-Col; he passed away in Washington D.C., August 20, 1868. A complete set of an important piece of historic military instructions with a nice association.…

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Title
Infantry Tactics: For The Instruction, Exercise, and Maneuvers of The Soldier, a Company, Line of Skirmishes, Battalion, Brigade, or Corps D'Armée
Author
CASEY, Brig.-Gen. Silas
Publisher
D. Van Nostrand, New York
Publication year
1862
Condition
Good
Binding
Hardcover
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Americana (also see U.S. States), Bindings / Sets, Military

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