Arms and Equipment of the Civil War (eBook)

Jack Coggins (Autor)

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2012
160 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-13127-6 (ISBN)

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From iron-clads, submarine torpedoes, and military balloons to pontoon bridges, grenades, and siege artillery, this excellent work describes what material was available to the armies and navies of both sides. Over 500 black-and-white illustrations.

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The first military conflict to use iron-clad gunboats, metallic cartridges, and submarines, the Civil War also introduced such inventions as the telegraph and military balloon, utilized by the Signal Corps. This comprehensive reference brings a fresh perspective to wartime victories and defeats, with vivid descriptions of how the war was fought and what material was available to armies and navies of the Union and the Confederacy. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of the author's own drawings, Jack Coggins's remarkable encyclopedia of military hardware and technology also describes such equipment as pontoon bridges, corduroy roads, "e;excelsior"e; percussion grenades, "e;freak guns,"e; siege artillery, mines, and submarine torpedoes. Offering a new view on how military resources decided the outcome not only of battles, but of the war as well, the text also includes on-the-scene comments by Union and Confederate soldiers about equipment and camp life in general. A must-have book for every Civil War enthusiast and for readers interested in the development of weaponry. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.3.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 210 x 210 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 3-inch • America • american civil • Ammunition • armed • Army Life • artilleryman • artillery pieces • Battlefield • bilby • Billings • books on army lives • books on camp lives • books on civil wars • books on common soldiers • books on confederate armies • books on confederate soldiers • books on definitive studies • books on elite soldiers • books on enlisted men • books on federal soldiers • books on field artilleries • books on foot soldiers • books on hand accounts • books on ink sketches • books on soldier lives • books on soldiers lives • books on union soldiers • books on war armies • books on war enthusiasts • books on war fields • books on war histories • books on war soldiers • books on war weapons • caliber • camp life • Cannon • carbines • cartridge • Charleston • Civil War • civil war history • common soldiers • confederate army • confederate soldiers • Corps • definitive study • elite soldiers • enlisted man • equipment • Everyday life • everyday soldier • federal soldier • field artillery • Firearms • foot soldier • Gettysburg • Guns • hand account • hardtack • history buffs • howitzers • Identification • infantry • ink sketches • limbers • living historians • Marching • modeler • muskets • Navy • ordinary soldier • Potomac • quartermaster • rifled • Rifles • Salamanders • Signal • smoothbore • soldiering • soldier life • soldier lived • soldiers life • soldiers lived • Specifications • specs • Springfield • Tennessee • tents • Trudeau • uniforms • union army • union soldiers • Untold • unwritten • war army • war buffs • war enthusiast • war era • war field • War history • war reenactor • war soldiers • war weapons • weapon technology • welcher
• ISBN-10: 0-486-13127-0 / 0486131270
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-13127-6 / 9780486131276