Report of the Board of officers appointed in pursuance of the act of Congress approved June 6, 1872
Subtitle: for the purpose of selecting a breech-system for the muskets and carbines of the military service, together with their report upon the subject of trowel-bayonets
By: with an appendix, prepared by the recorder, giving a description of each of the inventions submitted, with a classified nomenclature of parts as exhibited in the detailed illustrations accompanying; to which is added the report of a Board of ordnance officers on the subject of the proper caliber for small-arms
Contributors: United States. Army. Ordnance Dept.
Series: Ordnance memoranda -- no. 15.; Ordnance memoranda -- no. 15.
Publisher: Govt. Print. Off.
Published: 1873
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
Subjects: United States; United States. Army; Firearms; Bayonets
Notes: "Report of a Board of ordnance officers ... for the purpose of determining the proper caliber for small arms"... has special t.p.

Errata slip included.