Index to Annual Reports of the Chief of Ordnance 1867-1887

[cannonmn]

Ran across this by accident.  The usually thick annual Reports of the Chief of Ordnance are priceless sources for most all important US Army ordnance developments, and many minor issues, during a very interesting period in the evolution of artillery (and small arms for that matter.)  Google has some of them digitized, I'm not sure how many, but this index could be very useful to anyone interested in what was going on in ordnance during that period.

http://books.google.com/books?id=YrQtAAAAIAAJ&dq=moffatt%20cartridge&lr=&pg=PA1866#v=onepage&q=moffatt%20cartridge&f=false

[cannonmn]

another good book, FORTS AND ARTILLERY, Miller, 1911.

http://books.google.com/books?id=dMYLAAAAIAAJ&dq=chief%20of%20ordnance&lr=&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q=chief%20of%20ordnance&f=false