| DEPARTMENT. | | TEXT BOOKS, AND BOOKS OF REFERENCE. |
| Military and Civil Engineering and Science of War. | | Mahan's Field Fortifications.
Mahan's Outlines of Permanent Fortification.
Mahan's Civil Engineering.
Mahan's Fortification and Stereotomy.
Mahan's Advanced Guard and Out Post, etc.
*Moseley's Mechanics of Engineering. |
| Mineralogy and Geology. | | Dana's Mineralogy.
Hitchcock's Geology. |
| Law and Literature. | | French's Practical Ethics.
Halleck's International Law.
Law and Military Law, by Prof. French.
Benet's Military Law and the Practice of Courts-Martial. |
| Practical Military Engineering. | | Practical Instruction in fabricating Fascines, Sap Faggots,
Gabions, Hurdles, Sap Rollers, etc.; manner of laying out and constructing
Gun and Mortar Batteries, Field Fortifications, and Works of Siege; formation
of Stockades, Abatis, and other military obstacles; and throwing and dismantling
Ponton Bridges. |
| Tactics—Artillery, Cavalry and Infantry. | | United States Tactics for Cavalry.
Practical Instruction in the Schools of the Soldier, Company, and Battalion.
Practical Instruction in Artillery and Cavalry. |
| Ordnance and Gunnery. | | Benton's Ordnance and Gunnery.
Practical Pyrotechny. |
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