Daniel Butterfield. Camp and Outpost Duty for Infantry. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863. 32mo. Brown cloth with gilt eagle device.

Period ink inscription to title page reads: "Col. JN. Jones with the compliments of the Author". Beneath Butterfield's printed name and rank, he has also written "Col + Bvt. Maj. Genl. U.S.A." 

Daniel Adams Butterfield (1831-1901) led a military career characterized by gallantry. Prior to the war, Butterfield was a colonel in a local New York militia, and, shortly after its outbreak, he was commissioned into the 12th New York Infantry on 2 May 1861. He would cross the Long Bridge with his regiment and be assigned to the Department of the Pennsylvania under Patterson, participating in the First Battle of Bull Run.

On 7 September, Butterfield would be promoted to brigadier general in the Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac. He would be injured at the Battle of Gaines' Mill and, during his convalescence, is credited as having composed the bugle call "Taps", customarily played at military funerals and memorial ceremonies. As recognition of his actions at the battle, Butterfield would receive the Medal of Honor in 1892. 

Butterfield would continue to display exceptional military conduct following his return to the battlefield. He would see action at Second Bull Run and Antietam and would be promoted to major general of volunteers on 29 November 1862. The preface of Camp and Outpost Duty for Infantry is dated with the same month and year. In December, Butterfield assumed command of the entire Fifth Corps at the Battle of Fredericksburg. He would thereafter serve as chief of staff for the Army of the Potomac under Hooker and, subsequently, Meade, and would engage at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, being wounded at the latter. Butterfield would return as Chief of Staff, again under General Hooker, in the Army of the Cumberland, before assuming command of the Twentieth Corps, Third Division, Army of the Cumberland, in the Atlanta Campaign. Ill health would force Butterfield to give up the command but his military career would not be halted and he would continue to serve even after the war's conclusion.

Captain Josiah N. Jones (1835 - 1928) enlisted on 16 April 1861 as a private into Company F of the 6th Massachusetts "Minute Men" Infantry. After the 3-month regiment mustered out, he was commissioned into Company D of the 6th New Hampshire Infantry. Jones would hold the position of Post Leader at G.A.R. Post 10 in Worcester, Massachusetts. 

A fine, inscribed copy of a quintessential soldier's tactical book. 

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