Notes and Tables on Organization and Establishment of the Spanish Army in the Peninsula and Colonies by U.S. War Department, Adjutant-General's Office - 1898

Washington D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. Provenance provided upon request. Also from the library of Harlan I. Smith, his stamp to several locations. Condition notes: 811 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, ivory, some loose and laid in; a.e tanned, hinges sprung front and back and cracked in several other locations. Cover: black, v dull gilt titles spine; moderate to substantial shelfwear. Includes numerous illustrations, many of birds, some of them fold-outs. Heavy. Rough.

Washington, DC: U.S. War Department, 1941. Second, Rev. Edition. fair. 96, wraps, illus., covers quite worn, bottom corner front cover bent, tear in title page. Contents, unpaginated, follow the words and music section. Compiled in collaboration with the Library of Congress.

Washington DC : GPO, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 115 pages, blue cloth War Department Document No. 319. An inter-leaved edition with lined pages for additions and corrections. Authorized by Robert Shaw Oliver, Acting Secretary of War.

War Department, United States Army, Adjutant General's Office, 1864. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 7 pages. Rare account of several Civil War Courts Martials (all accused being found guilty), generally for Deesertion, with one case of murder of a superior officer. Accused included Patrick Berrian of the 16th Massachusetts Volunteers; Robert Bartmann, 1st New Jersey Volunteers; Edward Brandingham, 6th US Cavalry; Andrew Bans, 82nd Illinois Volunteers; William H.N. Annis, 3rd Vermont Volunteers.

Washington, DC: GPO, 1917. fair to good. 252, wraps, figures, tables, covers foxed and soiled, small tear and crease to front cover, fore-edge somewhat foxed. Ink name and stamp on front cover, some foxing to text, small stains around staples. War Department Document No. 631. Topics covered include the conduct of fire, military terms, the theory of fire, instruments, designation and recognition of service targets, visual training, the determination of ranges, fire distribution, auxiliary aiming targets, battlefield communications, the use of cover, battlefield reconnaissance and the selection of firing positions, fire tactics, vulnerability of formations, night firing, ammunition supply, musketry in trench warfare, the solution of fire problems, and more.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Leather bound. Fair. War Department Document No. 167. vii, [1], 97, [1] pages. Index. Ink marks noted at pages 20 and 21. Cover worn and soiled. Fep had become detached but has been taped to front board. Inside the front board is a lengthy printed stated to the effect that this manual was the property of the United States and was for official use. It bears the stamp of Troop B, 6th Cavalry in several places. It is also stamped Private Library Vol. No. 5 Charles A. Dunnell of Troop H and bears the signature and affiliation of Dunnell on the detached fep. The Manual of Guard Duty prepared by a board of officers consisting of Maj. Alexander Rodgers, Fourth Cavalry, Capt. William Lassiter, Artillery Corps, and Capt. Oscar J. Charles, Fourth Infantry was approved and published for the government of the armies of the United States by Elihu Root, Secretary of War. Rodgers was a 1875 graduate of West Point and served in… Read More

Washington, DC: GPO, 1898. fair to good. 32, wraps, roster, covers soiled, creases at spine, red ink initials on front cover, stamp on rear cover.

Privately Published, 1933 52 pp.; HB. Compilation of facsimilie documents (none bear original signatures) for the awarding of the Distinguished Service Cross to Ralph E. Ladue for his service during WW I. Pages: clean, bright, tight, t.e. and b.e. deckled, t.e. uncut, lovely paper with private watermark; hinge starting at pp 20-21. Cover: red, white, and blue leather, notitles or text.; scuffed and worn along spine edges, but fully intact, a little tanning to white leather.

[Washington]: Adjutant General's Office, 1863. Very Good. Small broadsheet. (13 x 19 cm.). Dated June 24, 1863. Court Martial of First Lieutenant Thomas C. Baldwin, 7th Iowa Volunteers for two counts of drunkenness and a third count of "taking "a negro wench into his tent, took her in bed with him, and lay with her until nearly midnight with his tent doors open." Baldwin plead guilty to all three counts and was sentenced to be dismissed from the service. The proceedings were then forwarded to President Lincoln for review. The record was found defective in not showing that the court was properly organized but, since Baldwin admitted his guilt of "a most gross and debasing offence," the President directed that Baldwin be dismissed from the service. Exactly what made his conduct "gross and debasing" is not entirely clear. Was it not closing the tent flaps, taking a woman to bed, or taking an African American woman to bed? It seems unlikely to have been being drunk.