Manual of Bayonet Exercise: Prepared for the Use of the Army of the United States

A system of bayonet exercise translated from the French by Capt. George B. McClellan, 1st Regiment of Cavalry, U.S.A., and printed by order of the War Department. It opens with Winfield Scott's letter of December 31, 1851, recommending it for distribution to the Army, approved by Secretary of War C. M. Conrad, and includes engraved plates of the positions and movements.Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1856 (copyright 1852). Blind-stamped cloth with an eagle on the boards and gilt spine title "Bayonet Exercise for the Army."With a pencil ownership inscription dated at Fort Monroe, Virginia, May 1861, by a major of the 1st Vermont Volunteers.