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- GLC#
- GLC00440
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- May 1861
- Author/Creator
- Pendleton, Alexander S., 1840-1864
- Title
- A treatise on field fortification, containing instructions on the methods of laying out, constructing, defending, and attacking intrenchments, with the general outlines also of the arrangement, the attack and defence of permanent fortifications
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- xxvii, [1], 168 p. : [12] folded leaves of plates : ill., plans Height: 16 cm, Width: 11 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Signed by Pendleton in May 1861 on front pastedown. Written by D.H. Mahan, professor of military and civil engineering at West Point. Second edition, published in New York by Wiley and Putnam in 1846.
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