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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1834. 



General Halleck, and Jomini's "Grand Mili- 

 tary Operations " and "Art of "War," trans- 

 lated by Col. S. B. Holabird, owe very much 

 to their American translators and editors. Mr. 

 Lynal Thomas's "Treatise on Rifle Ordnance" 

 has been republished without alteration. Of 

 the original military treatises issued during the 

 year, the most important were Major-General 

 Gillmore's " Engineer and Artillery Operations 

 against the Defences of Charleston Harbor in 

 1863," a work of great labor, and of great value 

 as demonstrating the possibility and method of 

 employing artillery for breaching purposes at 

 much greater ranges than had previously been 

 deemed possible, and as giving the result of 

 extensive practical experiment of the compara- 

 tive value of different kinds of ordnance for 

 such service ; Mr. Alexander L. Holley's ad- 

 mirable and exhaustive "Treatise on Ordnance 

 and Armor," which, in the present state of the 

 questions of great guns and armored ships, leaves 

 nothing more to be said ; and General Haupt's 

 excellent "Treatise on Military Bridges," a work 

 which must become a standard authority every- 

 where. Several of the military works were 

 intended as Manuals of Instruction in different 

 departments of the army or navy service. To 

 this class belong Commander Parker's " Squad- 

 ron Tactics under Steam ; " Gen'eral W. II. 

 Morris's "Field Tactics for Infantry," and his 

 "Infantry Tactics," now adopted by the "War 

 Department; Mahan's "Descriptive Geometry 

 applied to the Drawing of Fortifications ; " the 

 "Manual of Gunnery" for the navy; the 

 "Gunnery Catechism," also for the navy; "In- 

 structions for Field Artillery ; " Congdon's 

 " Cavalry Compendium ;" Elliot's "Manual of 

 Cavalry," and Kautz's " Customs of Service 

 for Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers." 

 Osbon's " Hand-Book of the Navy " is a valu- 

 able historical compilation of the actions in 

 which any of our naval vessels have been en- 

 gaged in the course of the present war. A new 

 edition of " "Winter Campaigns a test of Gen- 

 eralship," by J. Watts De Peyster, also made 

 its appearance during this year. 



In HISTOEIOAL LITERATURE there has been 

 less interest than during the previous year in 

 attempted histories of the existing war, and 

 few new claimants for the public regard. 

 Those histories which were in progress as 

 'serials have been continued, and some of them 

 issued as bound volumes. Among them may 

 be named, Crafts, Duyckinck's, and Tomes', 

 as well as the Rebellion Record. Harper's 

 History has made some progress, and a second 

 volume of Schmucker's has appeared, as also 

 the " Third Year of "War," by E. A. Pollard, 

 editor of the Richmond Examiner. Among the 

 new histories are Mr. Horace Greeley's "Ameri- 

 can. Conflict," the first volume of which brings 

 the history from the Revolution in 1776 to 

 1802. This work has had an immense sale, 

 not less than 75,000 copies having been sub- 

 scribed for. The late Hon. Joshua R. Giddings 

 (see GIDDINGS) tad prepared a history of the 



Exciting Causes of the Rebellion, under the title 

 cf "History of the Rebellion," which was pub- 

 lished in the spring of 1864. It is to a con- 

 siderable extent a history of Congress for 

 nearly twenty-five years, embracing the period 

 of the bitterest conflicts in that body on the 

 slavery question. An admirable compend has 

 been prepared by Mr. Edward McPherson, 

 clerk of the late House of Representatives, un- 

 der the title of " Political History of the Rebel- 

 lion," 1860-1864. All political action, State or 

 National, bearing on the Rebellion, up to July, 

 1864, is carefully collected in this volume. 



A number of valuable contributions to the 

 history of the war have been made in the way 

 of reports or narratives of particular battles or 

 campaigns, or of the service of particular regi- 

 ments, brigades, or divisions. Among these 

 the late Edward Everett's Gettysburg Oration, 

 giving an account of that terrible battle with 

 his peculiarly eloquent power of narration, is 

 entitled to the first place ; and the narrative of 

 Rev. M. Jacobs, " The Rebel Invasion of Mary 

 land and Pennsylvania and Battle of Gettys- 

 burg," is also deserving of notice. To this class 

 of works also belong Gen. McClellan's report of 

 his campaigns, published in several forms; 

 Mr. William Sumner Dodge's " History of the 

 Old Second Division in the Army of the Cum- 

 berland," Mr. Franklin B. Hough's "History of 

 Duryee's Brigade," Stevenson's " Indiana's Roll 

 of Heroic and Patriotic Dead, " Bechtel's 

 "Atlas of Battles," Mr. Frederick Milnes 

 Edge's "Englishman's View of the Battle 

 between the Alabama and Kearsarge," Capt. 

 Raphael Semmes' " Journal of the Cruise of the 

 Alabama and Sumter," "Chickamauga the 

 price of Chattanooga," by the author of "An- 

 nals of the Army of the Cumberland," " The 

 Soldiers of Indiana in the War for the Union," 

 " The Last Campaign of the 22d Regiment 

 N. Y. State National Guard," Rev. R, Eddy's 

 "History of the 60th Regiment, N. Y. V.," 

 "Our Campaign around Gettysburg," a his- 

 tory of the march of the 23d Regiment 

 (Brooklyn) N. Y. S. N. G., Mr. H. T. John's 

 " History of the 49th Regiment Mass. Vols.," 

 and J. 0. Myers' "Daily Journal of 122d Regi- 

 ment Penn. Vol." In this connection, too, 

 notice should be taken of those periodicals 

 which have contained full narr^ves of particu- 

 lar campaigns or single battles, or of the move- 

 ments or history of particular regiments, bri- 

 gades, divisions, or corps. Among these are 

 the United States Service Magazine, which has 

 contained admirable narratives of Sherman's 

 campaigns, by Col. S. M. Bowman, and accounts 

 of many other battles and movements ; the 

 Army and Navy Journal, which, though de- 

 voted more exclusively to military science and 

 official reports, has contained much valuable 

 historical matter relative to the war ; Harper's 

 Weekly and Monthly, both containing impor- 

 tant war narratives from the pens of eye-wit- 

 nesses ; the Connecticut War Record, a valua- 

 ble monthly journal of war matters; the 



