A Course of Instruction in Rifle Firing

Published in 1879, this work was written by order of the U. S. Secretary of War for the purpose of instructing U. S. Army soldiers in the proper care and use of their rifle and practice of gunnery, and in its admirable con­densation of the valuable experience of American and European practice-grounds, it embraces every theoretical and practical idea necessary in the edu­cation of the soldier to a perfect realization of all the possibilities of our government arm"

- Excerpt from Introduction