Author: George Brinton McClellan

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Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9781331137344

Excerpt from Regulations and Instructions for the Field Service of the U. S. Cavalry in Time of War This volume contains a complete set of regulations for the field service of the United States cavalry in time of war. It is the result, after careful observation and comparison of the principal cavalry systems of the European armies, of the use and adaptation of all that was excellent and appropriate in them to our own cavalry. It forms a part of McClellan's extended report of his European commission. Prepared when the author was a captain of cavalry, and a military commissioner - selected from that arm - from the United States Government, to Europe, it is written with the intelligent and eclectic power of an adept in the art of war, and with a faculty of observation and combination unsurpassed in works of this character. Published in this separate form, it is designed as a manual for cavalry officers in all the war-duties of their station; giving minute directions concerning the horses, their equipments, marches, advanced and rear guards, the posting of grand guards, pickets, vedettes: - in a word, presenting to an intelligent mind the proper mode of action under almost every variety of circumstances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.