Militia Field Manual; A Manual Designed for the Use of Miitiar and Volunteer Troops in the Field
Menasha, WI: George Banta Publising Company [The Collegiat Press], 1915. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 4.5 inches by 5.75 inches. Rare surviving copy, a copy associated with the Mexican Expedition/Punitive Expedition and the 74th New York Infantry Regiment! 217, 6 pages of Index, 6 pages on other Banta publications. Cover has gold lettering and an emblem at the bottom right corner of the front cover. Cover worn, rubbed and stained. Name, unit and date on the fep [Sergt Earl Borron, Pharr, Texas, Nov. 1916 74th NYInf. Co I.] The manual consistes of fifteen chapters: Introduction, Commission Officers, Enlisted Men, Duties of Adjutant General, Duties of Field and Staff Officers, Duties of Company and Medical Officers [included in Chapter V], Duties of Non-commissioned Officers, Subsistence of Troops, Camps and Sanitation, Practice Marches, Wagon Train, Railroad Transportation, Care of Arms and Equipment, Care of Animals, Pay of Troops, and Miscellaneous Information. This information is conveyed in 672 numbers sections. We believe that this was owned by the Earl Borron who was born about 1889 and who was a resident of Tonawanda, N.Y. (near Buffalo) according to the 1940 census. More