Gun and wheel pack saddle composed of two side bars joined by two metal yokes riveted with iron rivets. Two canvas pads faced with leather on sides and top form the sides of pack saddle. The pads are stuffed and graduated in thickness, the bottom...
Carriage and ammunition pack saddle composed of two sidebars joined by two metal yokes fastened with iron rivets. Two canvas pads faced with leather on sides and top form the sides of the saddle. These pads are stuffed and graduated in thickness,...
Wagon has two facing seats for passengers and a forward facing seat on the same level for the driver and under one roof. The roof is not for carrying luggage and has canvas curtains which roll down and fasten to brass swivels on the sides. The...
Gray painted wooden 12 pounder carriage with black painted iron fittings. The carriage has a 42.5 inch track with 42 inch diameter wheels with twelve spokes and two felloes. It appears that the felloes have been replaced, and it is questionable...
Thick collar leather, tapers from 7" wide at each end to 3 3/4" wide in the center. Has a block of wood with three machine-drilled slots attached to each end by brass screws. The slots are for receiving the projectile end of the shell. Has a single...
Cincha made of two piece canvas, 10 inches wide with latigo iron and chape sewn to the ends, latigo strap sewn into ring at one end. A circular leather piece with a leather thong is sewn to cincha approximately 13 inches from end with latigo strap.
Cincha made of double-layered thick white cotton canvas with a large steel loop on each end and a leather strap, 2 inches wide and 6 1/2 inches long permanently attached to one end.
Cincha made of canvas, 7 1/2 inches wide, with iron D rings and leather chape sewn to each end. Riveted to each leather chape are two 1 1/2 inches wide heavy straps with billet at one end and black metal roller buckle on other (for securing wheels...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
First part covers the history of the Army Schools, covering three general periods: 1900-1939, the system with relation to mobilization and World War II and the system since World War II. The second part of the document discusses the present...
Contains a biography of Sam Houston and his involvement in the Texas War of Independence and creation of the Republic of Texas. Includes a bibliography and index.
Combat Operations Research Group (CORG); Ney, Virgil
The modern military text, or field manual, has evolved over a period of several hundred years. Historically, military training literature traces its beginnings to the writings of the ancient Chinese, Greeks and Romans. Until the invention of...
The preface states "the author's purpose has not been to write a history of Egypt, but to trace to their probable causes the events which have for the last decade made Egypt so conspicuous a thread in the tangled skein of Old World politics".
Private Karl D. White was a member of Company K of the 32nd. He served with the unit from its formation in 1899, until his discharge in 1901. He kept diaries of his service time in three small notebooks. The diaries begin in October 1899, when he...
Text has divided gunnery into two sections, exterior ballistics and interior ballistics. Contains the principles, specifications, and equations pertaining to all aspects of the science of gunnery. Equations and formulas in appendices, index...
Discussion on importance of proper military transportation including plans, units, staffing, staff duties, types of transportation, transport of wounded, transport by rail, sea, and animal, with a review of transport in former British wars.