A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer Comprising ancient and modern military technical terms, historical accounts of all North American Indians, as well as ancient warlike tribes; also notices of battles from the earliest period to the present time, with a concise explanation of terms used in heraldry and the offices thereof. The work also gives valuable geographical information. Compiled from the best authorities of all nations. With an appendix containing the Articles of war, etc.

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.

BEETON’S DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL BIOGRAPHY.

BEETON’S DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY.

CHAMBERS’S ENCYCLOPÆDIA.

CUSTOMS OF SERVICE FOR NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE ARMY--Kautz.

CUSTOMS OF SERVICE FOR OFFICERS OF THE ARMY--Kautz.

CLASSICAL DICTIONARY--Smith.

DIGEST OF OPINIONS OF THE JUDGE-ADVOCATE-GENERAL--Winthrop.

DICTIONARY OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY--Gardner.

DICTIONARY OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES--Smith.

DICTIONARY OF GREEK AND ROMAN BIOGRAPHY AND MYTHOLOGY--Smith.

DICTIONARY OF GREEK AND ROMAN GEOGRAPHY--Smith.

DICTIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES, AND MINES--Ure.

DICTIONARY OF EVERY DAYS DIFFICULTIES--Shilton.

DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ART--Brande.

ELEMENTS OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF WAR--Wheeler.

ELEMENTS OF MILITARY ARTS AND SCIENCES--Halleck.

ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA.

FRENCH AND ENGLISH PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY--Spiers and Surenne.

FIELD EXERCISE (English), 1870.

FIELD-BOOK OF THE REVOLUTION--Lossing.

HAND-BOOK OF ARTILLERY--Roberts.

HAYDN’S DICTIONARY OF DATES--Payne.

HAYDN’S DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE--Payne.

HAYDN’S DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE--Payne.

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES--Bancroft.

HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE PENINSULA AND IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE--Napier.

HISTORY OF ENGLAND--Knight.

HISTORY OF THE REBELLION--Tenney.

INFANTRY, CAVALRY, AND ARTILLERY TACTICS, U.S.A.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR FIELD ARTILLERY.

JOMINI’S ART OF WAR--Translated from the French by Captains Mendell and Craighill, U.S.A.