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 might enable 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 three arms,—Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry.

In battle, these three arms are united; and, other things being equal, that commander will prove victorious who is best acquainted with their combined use in the field.

In order thoroughly to understand the proper use of the three arms combined, we must obviously begin by learning the proper use of each of them separately.

Hence the importance of the subject of the present treatise. In discussing it, we shall commence with the

TACTICAL USE OF INFANTRY.

The subject will be considered under the following heads:—

• —Its Attack, generally.
• —Formations for Attack.