Excerpt from The Hand-Book of Artillery: For the Service of the United States (Army and Militia) The following compilation originated in an attempt to adapt Lieut. Col. Burns' Questions and Answers on Artil lery to the United States service. The British Artillery being very different from ours, it was found necessary to omit many of Burns' questions, and to introduce others. 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.