Excerpt from The Bomb, 1900 The tried and approved Superintendent of the Vir ginia Military Institute; the man who has answered a high calling by contributing forty years of his activ ity to teaching young men obedience to' the voice of duty, both in the walls of civil life and on the field of battle: to him this volume is dedicated, in evi dence of the respectful regard of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.