Small Arms at Gettysburg
Infantry and Cavalry Weapons in America's Greatest Battle
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2024
Westholme Publishing, U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-59416-390-6 (ISBN)
Westholme Publishing, U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-59416-390-6 (ISBN)
The Battle of Gettysburg has probably been the subject of more books and articles than any other comparable event. Surprisingly, until this work, no one has analyzed the firearms and other individual soldier’s weapons used at Gettysburg in any great detail. The battle was a watershed, with military weapons technologies representing the past, present, and future—sabers, revolvers, smoothbores, rifles, and breechloaders—in action alongside each other, providing a unique opportunity to compare performance and use, as well as determining how particular weapons and their deployment affected the outcome and course of the battle. Small Arms at Gettysburg: Infantry and Cavalry Weapons in America’s Greatest Battle covers all of the individual soldier’s weapons providing a detailed examination of their history and development, technology, capabilities, and use at Gettysburg. Here we learn that the smoothbore musket, although beloved by some who carried it, sang its swan song, the rifle-musket began to come into its own, and the repeating rifle, although tactically mishandled, gave a glimpse of future promise.
JOSEPH G. BILBY is Assistant Curator of the National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey. A graduate of Seton Hall University, he served as a lieutenant in the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam. He is the author of a number of books including New Jersey Goes to War and A Revolution in Arms: A History of the First Repeating Rifles. He has received the Jane Clayton Award for contributions to Monmouth County (NJ) history and an Award of Merit from the New Jersey Historical Commission for his contributions to the states military history.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Over 50 black and white illustrations and maps |
| Verlagsort | Yardley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-59416-390-1 / 1594163901 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-59416-390-6 / 9781594163906 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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