COURSE OF STUDY AND BOOKS USED AT THE MILITARY ACADEMY.
Reading edition
[Books marked thus * are for Reference.]
FIRST YEAR—FOURTH CLASS.
DEPARTMENT. TEXT BOOKS, AND BOOKS OF REFERENCE.
Mathematics. Davies' Bourdon's Algebra. Davies' Legendre's Geometry and Trigonometry. Church's Descriptive Geometry.
French Language. Bolmar's Levizac's Grammar, and Verb Book. Agnel's Tabular System. Berard's Leçons Françaises. *Spier's and Surenne's Dictionary.
Tactics of Artillery and Infantry. Practical Instruction in the Schools of the Soldier, Company, and Battalion. Practical Instruction in Artillery.
SECOND YEAR—THIRD CLASS.
DEPARTMENT. TEXT BOOKS, AND BOOKS OF REFERENCE.
Mathematics. Church's Descriptive Geometry, with its application to Spherical Projections. Church's Shades, Shadows, and Perspective. Davies' Surveying. Church's Analytical Geometry. Church's Calculus.
French Language. Bolmar's Levizac's Grammar and Verb Book. Berard's Leçons Françaises. Chapsal's Leçons et Modeles de Literature Française. Agnel's Tabular System. Rowan's Morceaux Choises des Auteurs Modernes. *Spier's and Surenne's Dictionary.
Spanish. Josse's Grammar. Morale's Progressive Reader. Ollendorf's Oral Method applied to the Spanish application by Velasquez and Simonne. *Seoane's Neuman and Barretti's Dictionary.
Drawing. Topography, &c.
Tactics of Infantry Artillery, and Cavalry. Practical Instruction in the Schools of the Soldier, Company, and Battalion. Practical Instruction in Artillery and Cavalry.
THIRD YEAR—SECOND CLASS.
DEPARTMENT. TEXT BOOKS, AND BOOKS OF REFERENCE.
Natural and Experimental Philosophy. Bartlett's Mechanics. Bartlett's Acoustics and Optics. Bartlett's Astronomy.
Chemistry. Fowne's Chemistry. Chemical Physics from Miller.
Drawing. Landscape. Pencil and Colors.
Tactics—Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry. United States Tactics for Garrison, Siege, and Field Artillery. United States Tactics for Infantry. Practical Instruction in the Schools of the Soldier, Company, and Battalion. Practical Instruction in Artillery and Cavalry.
FOURTH YEAR—FIRST CLASS.
DEPARTMENT. TEXT BOOKS, AND BOOKS OF REFERENCE.
Military and Civil Engineering and Science of War. Mahan's Field Fortifications. Mahan's Outlines of Permanent Fortification. Mahan's Civil Engineering. Mahan's Fortification and Stereotomy. Mahan's Advanced Guard and Out Post, etc. *Moseley's Mechanics of Engineering.
Mineralogy and Geology. Dana's Mineralogy. Hitchcock's Geology.
Law and Literature. French's Practical Ethics. Halleck's International Law. Law and Military Law, by Prof. French. Benet's Military Law and the Practice of Courts-Martial.
Practical Military Engineering. Practical Instruction in fabricating Fascines, Sap Faggots, Gabions, Hurdles, Sap Rollers, etc.; manner of laying out and constructing Gun and Mortar Batteries, Field Fortifications, and Works of Siege; formation of Stockades, Abatis, and other military obstacles; and throwing and dismantling Ponton Bridges.
Tactics—Artillery, Cavalry and Infantry. United States Tactics for Cavalry. Practical Instruction in the Schools of the Soldier, Company, and Battalion. Practical Instruction in Artillery and Cavalry.
Ordnance and Gunnery. Benton's Ordnance and Gunnery. Practical Pyrotechny.
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