A. B. (Alexander Brydie) Dyer

Born in 1852 and dying in 1920, Alexander Brydie Dyer Jr. was a U.S. Army officer whose best-known surviving book is Handbook for Light Artillery. The record of his burial at Arlington National Cemetery and listings for his book help confirm both his dates and his authorship.

Although detailed biographical material is limited in the sources I could confirm, his writing clearly places him in the professional world of American artillery training and military instruction. That makes him a useful figure for readers interested in military history, especially the practical side of how soldiers learned their craft.

Today, he is remembered less as a literary celebrity than as a specialist author whose work preserves the knowledge and tone of his profession. For audiobook listeners, that gives his writing a documentary kind of interest: concise, purposeful, and closely tied to the needs of its time.