This is a detailed survey, replete with photographs and diagrams, of the field artillery used by both sides in the Civil War. In paperback for the first time, the book provides technical descriptions of the artillery (bore, weight, range, etc.), ordnance purchases, and inspection reports. Appendixes provide information on surviving artillery pieces and their current locations in museums and national parks.
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"The standard reference work on its subject: an important addition to any institutional or personal Civil War library and a significant contribution to knowledge." Civil War History "This masterful work on Civil War field artillery was written by a team of authors--a physician, a skilled mechanic, and a professional engineer, each a longtime student of the war. The book is at once informative, entertaining, and useful." Blue & Gray Magazine
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The only complete book on the subject ever written,
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This review is from: Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil War (Hardcover)
Every detail of Civil War field artillery is covered in this definitive book on the subject, more than most people will ever want to know. Full profile photos of nearly every type of fieldpiece, both Union and Confederate, facilitate identification of any survivor. In addition to the scholarly text containing more facts on the subject than ever assembled in one source, the appendices list the known surviving Civil War fieldpieces at the time of publication.
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The definitive reference for Civil War era Artillery.,
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If you were to acquire only one reference for Field Artillery, this should be your choice. Everything you could hope for, one chapter on every field piece, used by both Union and Conderacy, plus imports and experimentals. Even a chapter on limbers, carriages, etc.
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THE book you must own as an ACW-artillery aficionado,
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This review is from: Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil War (Hardcover)
This volume does cover in a very comprehensive way the artillery used during the American Civil War, as well as of those field pieces surviving on fields of battle up until this day. This is a book you HAVE to own if you are an ACW-artillery nut! It is well worth the price, and since it is in hard-back you won't have any problems with consulting it over and over again.
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Hundreds of aging cannon silently guard courthouse lawns, town squares, military parks, and other places of honor across our nation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ordnance office, muzzle fillet, base ring diameter, rimbase numbers, right rimbase, bronze field howitzer, right trunnion, chase astragal, trunnion band, left trunnion, muzzle swell, hausse seat, bronze rifles, bronze fieldpieces, field artillery weapons, steel rifled guns, trunnion face, foundry records, land diameter, muzzle band, muzzle face, bronze field gun, pounder field howitzers, interior orifice, foundry number Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Civil War, West Point Foundry, New York, United States, Cyrus Alger, Ordnance Department, Columbia Foundry, Tredegar Foundry, Bellona Foundry, Gun Foundry Book, New Orleans, Shiloh National Military Park, Fort Pitt Foundry, Confederate Napoleons, Alfred Mordecai, Rock Island, Howard England, South Carolina, Federal Napoleons, Confederate Parrott, John Clark, Petersburg National Battlefield, North Carolina, Warren Ripley, General James Browse Sample Pages:
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