The compiler has labored under some disadvantages in obtaining the necessary information for this volume, and much is due to the encouragement and assistance received from accomplished and eminent officers, through which he was enabled to undertake the revision of the first issue of this work with greater assurance; and among the officers referred to, Lieut. William R. Quinan, of the Fourth Artillery, U.S.A., deserves especially to be mentioned. It may not be out of place here to state that the compiler takes no credit to himself beyond the labor contributed in the several years of research, and bringing forward to date the matter requiring it, with such changes as the advance of time and improvements demand.
As it was thought best to make this work purely military, all naval references which appeared in the first edition have been eliminated.
May, 1881.
AUTHORITIES CONSULTED IN THE COMPILATION OF THIS WORK.
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN WORKS.
A Handy Dictionary of Military Terms—Knollys.
Aide Memoire to the Military Sciences—Originally edited by a Committee of the Royal Engineers in England (Revised and Enlarged).
Analytical Digest of the Military Laws of the United States—Scott.
A Treatise on the Law of Evidence—Greenleaf.