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Author | : Scott Hippensteel |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2018-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3030008770 |
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This book discusses the relationship between geology and fighting during the American Civil War. Terrain was largely determined by the underlying rocks and how the rocks weathered. This book explores the difference in rock type between multiple battlegrounds and how these rocks influenced the combat, tactics, and strategies employed by the soldiers and their commanding officers at different scales.
Author | : James Lester Ballou |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Browning automatic rifle |
ISBN | : 9780889352636 |
Download Rock in a Hard Place Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Complete authoritative study of the Browning automatic rifle (BAR) which remained one of the most popular and respected weapons in the U.S. arsenal for over four decades. It features chapters on all military models and experimental variations of the BAR produced as well as its trials and uses in foreign countries.
Author | : Jim Carmichel |
Publisher | : Osprey Books |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780943822556 |
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Author | : Earl J. Hess |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2015-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807159387 |
Download Civil War Infantry Tactics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
EARL J. HESS is Stewart W. McClelland Chair in History at Lincoln Memorial University and the author of fifteen books on the Civil War, including Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign ; The Knoxville Campaign: Burnside and Longstreet in East Tennessee ; and The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi.
Author | : Chris Bagley |
Publisher | : Gettysburg Publishing |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2021-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1734627638 |
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Horses are one of the many unsung heroes of the American Civil War. These majestic animals were impressed into service, trained, prepared for battle, and turned into expendable implements of war. There is more to this story, however. When an army’s means and survival is predicated upon an animal whose instincts are to flee rather than fight, a bond of mutual trust and respect between handler and horse must be forged. Ultimately, the Battle of Gettysburg resulted in thousands of horses killed and wounded. Their story deserves telling, from a time not so far removed.
Author | : Julian S. Hatcher |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 655 |
Release | : 2008-01-02 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0811749177 |
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Classic reference by a renowned expert. Invaluable information for shooters, gunsmiths, collectors, ballisticians, and hunters. Includes new foreword.
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Publisher | : Zenith Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2011-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0760339716 |
Download Guns of the Civil War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Featuring guns photographed by Dennis Adler from the Mike Clark/Collector's Firearms Collection; the Dr. Joseph A. Murphy Collection; and the Dennis LeVett Collection, with additional photography provided by the Rock Island Auction Company Archives."
Author | : Dan Baum |
Publisher | : Alfred a Knopf Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0307595412 |
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"A funny, raucous, eye-opening, wholly non-partisan trip in search of Americans who love their guns"--
Author | : Scott Hippensteel |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2023-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820363545 |
Download Sand, Science, and the Civil War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The influence of sedimentary geology on the strategy, combat, and tactics of the American Civil War is a subject that has been neglected by military historians. Sedimentary geology influenced everything from the nature of the landscape (flat vs. rolling terrain) to the effectiveness of the weapons (a single grain of sand can render a rifle musket as useless as a club). Sand, Science, and the Civil War investigates the role of sedimentary geology on the campaigns and battles of the Civil War on multiple scales, with a special emphasis on the fighting along the coastlines. At the start of the Civil War the massive brick citadels guarding key coastal harbors and shipyards were thought to be invincible to artillery attack. The Union bombardment of Savannah’s key defensive fortification, Fort Pulaski, demonstrated the vulnerability of this type of fortress to the new rifled artillery available to the Union; Fort Pulaski surrendered within a day. When the Union later tried to capture the temporary sand fortifications of Battery Wagner (protecting Charleston) and Fort Fisher (protecting Wilmington) they employed similar tactics but with disastrous results. The value of sand in defensive positions vastly minimized the Federal advantage in artillery, making these coastal strongpoints especially costly to capture. Through this geologically centered historic lens, Scott Hippensteel explores the way sediments and sedimentary rocks influenced the fighting in all theaters of war and how geologic resources were exploited by both sides during the five years of conflict.
Author | : Mark Urban |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2009-05-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802718167 |
Download Wellington's Rifles Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The 95th Rifles was one of history's great fighting units, and Mark Urban brings them and the Napoleonic War gloriously to life in this unique chronicle. Focusing especially on six soldiers in the first battalion, Urban tells the Rifles' story from May 25, 1809, when they shipped out to join Wellington's army in Spain, through the battle of Waterloo in June 1815. Drawing on diaries, letters, and other personal accounts, Urban has fashioned a vivid narrative that allows readers to feel the thrill and horror of famous battles, the hardship of the march across Europe, the bravery and camaraderie of a nineteenthcentury Band of Brothers whose innovative tactics created the modern notion of infantryman.