Amazon.com description: Product Description: This early works was originally published in 1911. PREFACE: This book has been developed from one of the problems prepared for study by the student officers of The Army School of the Line during its present session. It is intended to illustrate at once, under assumed conditions of battle, the leading of troops and the management of a sanitry service co-ordinate therewith, and thereby give some idea of the inter-dependent and detailed operations of the tactical and sanitary mechanism of a large military unit in modern war. Planned originally as a study in battle orders, it has been found best to somewhat amplify its scope and introduce various fictitious personage, so far as the sanitary service is concerned, through whom many typical and important points perhaps not wholly related to the subject in question could be more clearly and realistically bought out....... This is a comprehensive and informative look at the subject and will appeal to all historians. Many of the earliest books,