A TREATISE

ON THE

TACTICAL USE OF THE THREE ARMS:

INFANTRY, ARTILLERY, AND CAVALRY.

BY

FRANCIS J. LIPPITT,

EX-COLONEL SECOND INFANTRY, CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS.

NEW YORK:
D. VAN NOSTRAND, PUBLISHER,
192 BROADWAY.
1865.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865,
By D. VAN NOSTRAND,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.

ALVORD, PRINTER.

TO THE MILITARY PUBLIC.

The Author would feel obliged for any facts or suggestions which mightenable him to render a future edition of this work more valuable.

Providence, R.I., July, 1865.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Tactical Use of Infantry

• Its Attack, Generally
• Formations for Attack
• The Attack, how made
• Bayonet Charges
• Defence Against Infantry
• Defence Against Artillery
• Defence Against Cavalry
• Squares
• Skirmishers

Tactical Use of Artillery

• How Posted with respect to the Ground
• How Posted with respect to our own Troops
• How Posted with respect to the Enemy
• Posting of Batteries and of Pieces as Between Themselves
• How Used
• Its Fire
• Its Supports

Tactical Use of Cavalry

• Its Formations
• Its Strong and its Weak Points
• How Posted
• Its Supports
• How Used
• How it Fights
• Its Charge
• Its Attack on Infantry
• General Remarks

TACTICAL USE OF THE THREE ARMS.

Every complete military force consists of threearms,—...