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Report ... of the Siege and Reduction of Fort Pulaski, Georgia_, New York, 1862; and the _Official Records of Union and Confederate Armies and Navies_. Ordnance manuals of the period include: _Instruction for Heavy Artillery_, U. S., Charleston, 1861; _Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy_, Washington, 1866; J. Gorgas, _The Ordnance Manual for the Use of the Officers of the Confederate States Army_, Richmond, 1863. For United States developments after 1860: L. L. Bruff, _A Text-book of Ordnance and Gunnery_, New York, 1903; F. T. Hines and F. W. Ward, _The Service of Coast Artillery_, New York, 1910; the U. S. Field Artillery School's _Construction of Field Artillery Materiel_ and _General Characteristics of Field Artillery Ammunition_, Fort Sill, 1941. *GENERAL.* For the history of artillery, as well as additional biographical and technical details, there is the Field Artillery School's excellent booklet, _History of the Development of Field Artillery Materiel_, Fort Sill, 1941. Henry W. L. Hime, _The Origin of Artillery_, New York, 1915, is most useful, as is that standard work, the _Encyclopedia Britannica_, 1894 edition: Arms and Armour, Artillery, Gunmaking, Gunnery, Gunpowder; 1938 edition: Artillery, Coehoorn, Engines of War, Fireworks, Gribeauval, Gun, Gunnery, Gunpowder, Musket, Ordnance, Rocket, Small arms, and Tartaglia. HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office Washington 25, D. C. *INTERPRETIVE SERIES*: America's Oldest Legislative Assembly and Its Jamestown Statehouses (25 cents). Artillery Through the Ages (35 cents). The Building of Castillo de San Marcos (20 cents). *POPULAR STUDY SERIES*: Robert E. Lee and Fort Pulaski (15 cents). Wharf Building of a Century and More Ago (10 cents). Winter Encampments of the Revolution (15 cents). *SOURCE BOOK SERIES*: Abraham Lincoln: From His Own Words and Contemporary Accounts (35 cents). The History of Castillo de San Marcos and Fort Matanzas From Contemporary Narratives and Letters (20 cents). "James Towne" in the Words of Contemporaries (20 cents). Yorktown: Climax of the Revolution (20 cents). End of Project Gutenberg's Artillery Through the Ages, by Albert Manucy *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ARTILLERY THROUGH THE AGES *** ***** This file should be named 20483.txt or 20483.zip ***** This a
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