Historical Sketch of the Organization, Administration, Matériel and Tactics of the Artillery, United States Army
New York: Greenwood Press, 1968.
Reprint. Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Item #9250
ISBN: 0837103142
Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, slip residue, tape residue, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; First Greenwood Press printing of facsimile reprint of 1884 edition, Washington DC: J J Chapman. Tom Broadfood; Civil War Books: A Priced Checklist With Advice, Fourth Edition; page 58. Catalogue of Library of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John Page Nicholson ... relating to the War of the Rebellion 1861-1866; page 84 (for first edition). Birkhimer had Civil War enlisted experience, graduated West Point post-war, and later earned the Medal Of Honor during the Philippines insurrection. "Of late years there has been a seemingly increasing disposition with us to inculcate the precepts, if we could not attain to the practice, of European services. There are undoubtedly many admirable features in the organization of some foreign armies; but instead of blindly following them, it would be wiser to first thoroughly familiarize ourselves with our own service and its relations to our civil institutions, to see whether principles which lead to such happy results elsewhere would be equally applicable here; indeed whether they would not be positively injurious. As to the artillery, however, there is felt no room for doubt. The technical and the combatant branches are everywhere else united under a single superior direction, and so they must be with us before either can attain to highest efficiency." - Preface. Classic, authoritative work on the US artillery. ; The West Point Military Library; Ex-Library; vii, [1], 406 pages.
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