Excerpt from Officers Manual This Manual is a compilation of "Customs of the Service" and other matters of a practical, worth-knowing nature - things of value and assistance to the inexperienced - most of which can not be found in print, but must be learned by experience - often by doing that which we should not do or by failing to do that which we should do. The idea of the publication of the book originated in the need the author himself, when a subaltern, often felt for such a Manual - a feeling shared and heard expressed time and again by fellow-officers. Although the manuscript was prepared with much care, patience, and labor, the author realizes the Manual is far from perfect, and will merely say he has made an honest, sincere effort to place in the hands of our subalterns, in simple, convenient, and useful form, information the need of which he often felt during the early days of his experience as an officer, and the possession of which would have saved time and trouble to himself and others, avoided the commission of errors, and given a feeling of confidence and satisfaction instead of one of uncertainty and discomfort. 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.