Member of Staff.—Major T. G. Baylor, Ordnance Department.
Adjutant of School and Secretary of Staff.—First Lieutenant I. C. Breckinridge, Second Artillery.
Instructor in Mathematics, Ordnance, and Gunnery.—Captain R. Lodor, Fourth Artillery.
Instructor in Military, International, and Constitutional Law, and in Tactics.—Captain S. S. Elder, First Artillery.
Instructor in Mathematics and Military Engineering.—Captain S. N. Benjamin, Second Artillery.
Instructor in Mathematics and Military History.—Captain E. R. Warner, Third Artillery.
Instructor in Tactics.—Captain J. W. Piper, Fifth Artillery.
A library of books of reference, professional instruction and general reading, to the number of 2,050 volumes, belongs to the school, made up of duplicates from the libraries of the War Department and the Military Academy, and a bequest of Col. Archer.
A museum of field, siege, and sea-coast artillery; specimens of primers, fuses, and projectiles; different varieties of small arms of this and other countries; instruments for inspecting cannon and projectiles, has been commenced by the Superintendent, as a useful aid to the course of practical and theoretical instruction in the school. It now numbers over 4,000 articles.
The Artillery School has been organized and conducted thus far to the satisfaction of the Department, and favor, with this arm of the service, without any special pecuniary expense to the Government by the present Commandant, Col. William F. Barry—who closes his annual Report with the remarkable paragraph:—“No special appropriation (beyond the ordinary requirements of this Military Post) for the maintenance of this school are now needed, and none are required.”