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Chemical Notes, on Gunpowder and its Materials

Bailey is listed on title page as Acting Professor of Chemistry. Lithography by George Aspinwall at the U.S. Military Academy Press. Owned by Henry W. Halleck while a cadet at West Point. Bound together in a book with GLC05707.01-.07.

GLC05707.07

Notes on Gunpowder, Percussion, Powder, Cannon and Projectiles

Includes detailed schematic diagrams and sectional views of cannons, blast furnaces, projectiles, etc. Knowlton is listed on title page as Instructor of Artillery in the US Military Academy. Lithography by George Aspinwall at the U.S. Military...

GLC05707.08

[Provision return for a German deserter]

Order to issue four rations over four days to a German deserter. Verso states rations were received, and is signed by the deserter, whose signature is illegible. Signed by Jackson as Commandant of West Point.

GLC02497.09

to Richard Platt

Discusses the preliminary drawings of an artillery building at West Point which will include an ordnance store and a crane projecting from the building's pediment. Knox requests another building to serve as a laboratory.

GLC02531

[Collection of William E. Jones][Decimalized .01- .28]

Confederate General William E. "Grumble" Jones, 11th regiment, Virginia, cavalry. Collection includes swords, correspondence, West Point pamphlets, military orders, and receipts. Decimalized 02711.01-02711.28.

GLC02711