The Army Officer's Examiner: Containing Questions and Answers on All Subjects Prescribed for an Officer's Examination, Together with Rules to Guide Boards of Examination

William H Powell

John Wiley & Sons New York 1894

[Edmund / Truman Smith Family Copy.] Bound in publisher's red cloth. Hardcover.  Good binding and cover.  Army Navy Club bookplate. Scattered marginalia, notes from Captain Smith.xxxii, 625 pages ; 19 cm. Contents: Pt. I. Manual of guard duty --Pt. II. Military law --Pt. III. Field engineering --Pt. IV. Signalling --Pt. V. Drill regulations --cavalry --Pt. VI. Drill regulations --light artillery --Pt. VII. Drill regulations --for infantry --Pt. VIII. Hippology --Pt. IX. Fire discipline --Pt. X. Minor tactics --Pt. XI. Military topography --Pt. XII. Army regulations --Pt. XIII. Troops in campaign --Pt. XIV. Special questions. 

Interesting provenance: This volume was from the library of Truman Smith.  Colonel Truman Smith (1893-1970), was personal advisor to General George C. Marshall.  Yale class of 1915.  Awarded the Silver Star and Distinguished Service Medal.  The volume was owned by his father, Captain Edmund Dickinson Smith.  E.D. Smith (1857-1900), was killed in the Spanish American War in Sogod Island, Cebu, Philippines.  Smith was the son of Senator Truman Smith of CT.   Small hand written tag at rear, "No. 305, West Point, NY Sept 5, 1894, E.D. Smith, 1" Lieut 19" Inf / Powell."