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A. B. (Alexander Brydie) Dyer
1852–1920
Remembered for a practical and detailed handbook on light artillery, this U.S. Army officer wrote from direct professional experience and turned technical military knowledge into a clear working guide. His surviving book remains of interest to historians, collectors, and readers of military history.
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Handbook for Light Artillery
by A. B. (Alexander Brydie) Dyer
About the author
Born in 1852 and dying in 1920, A. B. Dyer is identified in library and archival records as Alexander Brydie Dyer. He is best known today for Handbook for Light Artillery, a late 19th-century manual that has been preserved by major digital libraries and reissued in public-domain editions.
The book’s preface presents it as a compact, practical resource for people interested in light artillery, especially in the Regular Army and the National Guard. That focus gives his writing a straightforward, instructional quality: it was meant to be used, not just admired.
Reliable biographical detail about his wider literary life is limited in the sources I could confirm. What is clear is that his name remains closely associated with military instruction and artillery history, and that his work has lasted because it offers a direct window into the professional knowledge of its time.