Pendleton, Alexander S., 1840-1864 A treatise on field fortification, containing instructions on the methods of laying out, constructing, defending, and attacking intrenchments, with the general outlines also of the arrangement, the attack and defence of permanent fortifications
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00440 Author/Creator: Pendleton, Alexander S., 1840-1864 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Book signed Date: May 1861 Pagination: xxvii, [1], 168 p. : [12] folded leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 16 x 11 cm. Order a Copy
Signed by Pendleton in May 1861 on front pastedown. Written by D.H. Mahan, professor of military and civil engineering at West Point. Second edition, published in New York by Wiley and Putnam in 1846.
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