Infantry Tactics: For The Instruction, Exercise, and Maneuvers of The Soldier, a Company, Line of Skirmishes, Battalion, Brigade, or Corps D'Armée (Volumes Two and Three Only)

Volumes Two and Three only of a three volume set. 32mos. Publisher's decorative dark green cloth boards with the Great Seal of the United States stamped in blind on the boards and gilt lettering and a gilt eagle emblem on the spines. All three volumes are illustrated with engraved plates, diagrams, and charts, some of which fold out. Boards and spines worn, corners bumped, soiling to the boards of Volume Two, owner names on the front pastedown of Volume Two, and a few pages with some foxing, good or better. Casey's highly influential book of infantry tactics used by both sides of the American Civil War; a revised edition was issued in 1863 specifically for use by African-American soldiers. Includes, Volume Two: Evolutions of a Brigade and Corps D'Armée, and Volume Three: School of the Battalion. The owner name in Volume Two is that of Civil War Veteran Edward E. Wiggin, his address is written as China, Kennebec Co., Maine, where he is now buried. He died in 1871 at the age of 27. He wrote his name twice and beside the second instance of his name he drew a small Freemason "Square and Compasses" symbol.…