[Rarebooks] FS: Catalogue Announcement: Civil War, Military, Americana

[Kaaterskill Books]

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List 27: A short list of 70 American and Continental works concerning 
Tactics, Weapons, Ordnance, Fortifications, Uniforms, Military 
Manuals, and related items published before, during, and shortly 
after the Civil War from the Library of the Military Order of the 
Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of 
Illinois.

The early items, such as Gay de Vernon's "Traite elementaire d'art 
militaire et de fortification" (volume II only), which was the 
standard military manual at West Point from 1818 until 1830 or 
Tielke's  "The Field Engineer; or Instructions upon every Branch of 
Field Fortification" which was popular among American Officers, 
influenced the tactics and strategy of the war. During the war 
itself, Viele's "Handbook for Active Service containing Practical 
Instructions in Campaign Duties. For the Use of Volunteers" and 
Buckholtz' "Tactics for Officers of Infantry, Cavalry and Artillery" 
(Richmond 1861) helped volunteers through their demanding tasks. 
Immediately after the War until the turn of the century, America's 
new concern with an overhaul of its military can be found in such 
works as Norton's "Report to the Government of the United States on 
the Munitions of War exhibited at the Paris Universal Exhibition, 
1867,"  Whittaker's "Volunteer Cavalry. The Lessons of the Decade," 
Upton's "The Armies of Asia and Europe: embracing Official 
Reports..." and the over four hundred "Ordnance Notes" that poured 
out from the Ordnance Office in the 1880's.

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