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INFANTRY TACTICS,

FOR THE

INSTRUCTION, EXERCISE, AND MANŒUVRES

OF THE

United States Infantry,

INCLUDING INFANTRY OF THE LINE, LIGHT INFANTRY, AND

RIFLEMEN.

PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT,

And Authorized and Adopted by the Secretary of War,

MAY 1, 1861.

CONTAINING

THE SCHOOL OF THE SOLDIER; THE SCHOOL OF THE COMPANY;
INSTRUCTION FOR SKIRMISHERS; THE GENERAL
CALLS, THE CALLS FOR SKIRMISHERS, AND

THE SCHOOL OF THE BATTALION;

INCLUDING THE ARTICLES OF WAR AND A DICTIONARY
OF MILITARY TERMS.

WITH QUESTIONS ADAPTED TO THE TEXT

BY

LIEUT.-COL. H. B. WILSON.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

HANVARD

COLLEGE

DEC 8 1899

Y.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by
H. B. WILSON,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio.

Relative to adopting the United States Infantry Tactics for the Instruction of the Militia of Ohio.

Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the United States Infantry Tactics, for the Instruction, Exercise, and Manoeuvres of the United States Infantry, including Infantry of the Line, Light Infantry, and Riflemen, prepared under the direction of the War Department, and authorized and adopted by the Secretary of War, May 1, 1861, together with the system of questions appended to the text by Lieut.-Col. H. B. Wilson, be, and the same is hereby, authorized and adopted for the instruction of the military of the State of Ohio.

JAMES R. HUBBELL,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JAMES MONROE,

President pro tem. of the Senate.

Passed April 10, 1862.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

AT COLUMBUS, OHIO, April 11, 1862.

I, Benjamin R. Cowen, Secretary of State of the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing is truly taken and copied from the original role on file in this office.

B. R. COWEN,
Secretary of State.

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