Sources on Militaries in 1880

Would anyone happen to know if there are any good sources or overviews on warfare (especially colonial warfare) in 1880?
Primarily the various tactics of Britain, France, the US, and Russia, as well as possibly sources for where various units were stationed around that time.
 
Anticipating Total War: The German & American Experiences 1971-1914, eds Manfred Boemeke, Roger Chickering and Stig Foerster (Cambridge University Press, 1999), is a collection of essays on how the military and civil establishments in the USA and Imperial Germany saw warfare and its future developments during this period.

No particular focus on tactics, but there's a fair amount of stuff that you may find useful.

Edit: found a useful review. Extract:
Perhaps the most useful section of the book is the last. Section Four, "The Experience of War," looks at four specific instances where Germany and America went to war against colonial populations or native Americans, and inquires as to what extent these limited conflicts were total war. In the process we see some of the difficulties in calling anything "total war." In all four instances, civilian populations are decimated, yet the conflict or action does not always rise to the level of total war in the mind of the author because some aspect of Chickering^Òs broader, expanding nature is missing. The American Indian fell victim not to total war, but to white cultural and economic forces (pp. 412-414). In the German wars of pacification in Southern Africa, the violence alone was insufficient to deem the conflicts "total." What distinguished these actions from total war was Germany^Òs less than total mobilization of national resources and its limited use of technologically superior weapons (pp. 430-435).

In contrast, the American suppression of the Philippine guerillas and the German punitive efforts following the Boxer Rebellion, while limited in scope, seem to display aspects of total war, even if neither possessed the expansive quality inherent in the concept. Although not "total," these conflicts at least served as military actions that anticipated total war in the future (pp. 455-56 and 474-475). Perhaps indicative of how hard it is to define total war, it is possible to take the analysis of each of these essays and apply it to the facts of the others, yielding a conclusion that the war was or was not total.

Full piece here.
 
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Perry D. Jamieson's Crossing the Deadly Ground: United States Army Tactics 1865-1899 has everything you could want on the US. Britain is reasonably well-served by Edward M. Spiers' The Late Victorian Army 1868-1902, which has chapters on 'Arms, tactics and training' and 'Colonial campaigning'. On the other hand, you may want to try Colonel J.F. Maurice's Military history of the campaign of 1882 in Egypt, or Brian Best's 'Campaign life in the British Army during the Zulu War', to give you an overall sense of how British colonial wars in this period felt. Despite Osprey's reputation, Warrior 83 (British Infantryman in South Africa 1877-1881), or Men at Arms 198 (British Army on Campaign 1856-1881) and 201 (British Army on Campaign 1882-1902), would also be a good place to start if you're limited in what you have access to.

Moving on to the French, there's an article from the Journal of the Royal United Services Institute on their post-1876 infantry tactics, though it doesn't cover any modifications made to these for colonial campaigning. Finally, with Russia being a significant threat to the British by the 1880s, the War Office put together an analysis of their army including its tactics.

As for locations, the Nafziger collection has British unit locations for pretty much every year of the 19th century, and if you're very adept at negotiating the US Congressional Serial Set you might be lucky enough to piece together some of the information you need for the US. The Armed Strength of Russia (1882) also includes unit locations, as does The Armed Strength of France (1877)- but, as you can see, before the period you're interested in and at a very high level.
 
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