Advanced-Guard, Out-Post, and Detachment Service of Troops, with the Essential Principles of Strategy, and Grand Tactics for the Use of Officers of the Militia and Volunteers

by MAHAN, D.H. (Horace Bumstead)

$950 · Offered by Between the Covers

New York: John Wiley, 1864. Hardcover. "New edition, with Twelve plates." 12mo. Publisher's brown cloth. 305pp. + 12 folding plates. Cloth spine lacking, boards loose and nearly detached, a poor, well-used copy. Stenciled ownership name of famous abolitionist Horace Bumstead: "Major Horace Bumstead. 43rd. U.S.C.T." An educator and Congregationalist minister..... More

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