The idea of the arrangement, and a few of the questions and answers, appear to have been taken from “Burns’ Questions and Answers on Artillery;” but that work has been so far deviated from, as fairly to entitle the present work to be considered as an original compilation.
In the opinion of your Committee, the arrangement of the subjects and the selection of the several questions and answers have been judicious. The work is one which may be advantageously used for reference by the officers, and is admirably adapted to the instruction of non-commissioned officers and privates of Artillery.
Your Committee do therefore recommend that it be substituted as a text-book in place of “Burns’ Questions and Answers on Artillery.”
(Signed) I. VOGDES,
Capt. 1st Art’y.
(Signed) E. O. C. ORD,
Capt. 3d Art’y.
(Signed) J. A. HASKIN,
Bvt. Maj. and Capt. 1st Art’y.
The preceding Report was adopted, and the Staff recommended this work as a book of instruction at the Artillery School, in lieu of “Burns’ Questions and Answers on Artillery.”
PREFACE.
The following compilation originated in an attempt to adapt Lieut. Col. Burns’ “Questions and Answers on Artillery” to the United States service. The British Artillery being very different from ours, it was found necessary to omit many of Burns’ questions, and to introduce others.
The compiler is under great obligations to several of his brother officers at Fort Monroe (especially to Major Haskin, 1st Artillery), for their kindness in assisting him in the compilation of this little volume, and for important suggestions in the revision of many of the “answers.”