Military commission to Europe, in 1855 and 1856.
Subtitle: Report
By: of Major Alfred Mordecai, of the Ordnance department.
Contributors: Mordecai, Alfred, 1804-1887; Schön, Julius
Series: 36th Cong., 1st sess.  Senate.  Ex. Doc -- 600
Publisher: G.W. Bowman, printer
Published: 1860
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Artillery; Firearms; Military art and science
Notes: "Rifled infantry arms.  A brief description of the modern system of small arms, as adopted in the various European armies.  By J. Schön, captain in the Royal Saxon infantry ...  2d ed., revised and augmented. With explanatory plates.  Dresden: 1855.  Translated from the German by J. Gorgas, captain of ordnance, United States army": p. [177]-232.