Essential Reference for Military Records

I came across this book on Google Books:

A Dictionary of all Officers, who have been Commissioned, or have been Appointed and Served, in the Army of the United States, Since the Inauguration of their first President in 1789, to the first of January, 1853,–With Every Commission of Each;–Including the Distinguished Officers of the Volunteers and Militia of the States, and of the Navy and Marine Corps, who have served with the land forces: Indicating the Battle in which Every Such Officer has been Killed or Wounded–And the Special Words of Every Brevet Commission

by Charles Kitchell Gardner (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1853)