Long Range Guns, Close Quarter Combat: The Third United States Artillery Regiment in the War of 1812

144 pp. A study of the 3rd U.S. Artillery in the War of 1812, illustrated with photographs, historical illustrations, and maps. Rich Barbuto is professor of history and has served as the deputy director of the Department of Military History at the US Army Command & General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas since 2004. A 1971 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he served for twenty-three years as an armor officer with tours of duty in Germany, Korea, and Canada. He also served as exchange instructor at the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College in Toronto. Barbuto received his Master of Arts degree in History from Eastern Kentucky University and his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. Barbuto specializes in the U.S. Army in the early republic and the War of 1812. He authored Niagara 1814: America Invades Canada, and Long Range Guns, Close Quarter Combat, as well as a chapter in Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Early America. He recently authored two commemorative pamphlets on the War of 1812 along the Canadian border for the US Army Center of Military History. He is currently researching a study of New York State in the War of 1812.