Mahan, D.H.:

$1,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON ADVANCED-GUARD, OUT-POST, AND DETACHMENT SERVICE OF TROOPS, AND THE MANNER OF POSTING AND HANDLING THEM IN PRESENCE OF AN ... Later edition, after the first of 1847, but the first Confederate edition. A somewhat ironic printing of this respected military manual. Mahan originally composed his work as a professor at the United States Military Academy during the Mexican-American War, but its popularity was assured when both Confederate and Union officers consulted it during the Civil War. It was also reprinted in Richmond. A key Confederate military item.

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