[PDF] Arming The Union eBook

Author : American Precision Museum
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 2012-05
Category : Firearms
ISBN :

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At the beginning of the Civil War, the U.S. Army was small, its weapons were largely outdated, and the North had just lost control of the arms-making facility at Harper's Ferry. And yet, over the next four years, Union troops would be furnished with 1.5 million rifles, and tens of thousands of carbines and pistols. How was it possible, in the early 1860s, to put that many weapons into the field in such a short time?Arming the Union tells the story of how a small town in Vermont provided the machinery that powered this arms build=up. Using newly-discovered documents in the archives at the American Precision museum, curator Carrie Brown discovered the inside story of the men and the machine tools that helped shape bth the conduct and the outcome of the war.This work by historian Carrie Brown served as the companion to an exhibit held at the American Precision Museum in Windsor, Vermont. This is a simplified digital edition of the original print work published in 2012, optimized for e-readers.

Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Education
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780809488544

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Discusses the firearms, uniforms, and equipment used by the Union Army during the United States Civil War.

Author : John Cochrane
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 17,5 MB
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780267820672

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Excerpt from Arming the Slaves in the War for the Union; Scenes, Speeches, and Events Attending It: Speeches of General John Cochrane and Secretary of War Cameron, With Remarks by Edwin Croswell, Gov; Dickenson, and Metropolitan Journals But it is needles's here to say more concerning the preservation of 'such authentic records of the movements concerning the decisive shot against slavery, which preserved our National Union and reverberated through the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Dudley Taylor Cornish
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 16,47 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN :

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Describes the hopes, fears, and accomplishments of Black troops in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Author : Ian Drury
Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN :

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Illustrations and an examination of arms and equipment used during the Civial War.

Author : David G. Herrmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0691201382

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David Herrmann's work is the most complete study to date of how land-based military power influenced international affairs during the series of diplomatic crises that led up to the First World War. Instead of emphasizing the naval arms race, which has been extensively studied before, Herrmann draws on documentary research in military and state archives in Germany, France, Austria, England, and Italy to show the previously unexplored effects of changes in the strength of the European armies during this period. Herrmann's work provides not only a contribution to debates about the causes of the war but also an account of how the European armies adopted the new weaponry of the twentieth century in the decade before 1914, including quick-firing artillery, machine guns, motor transport, and aircraft. In a narrative account that runs from the beginning of a series of international crises in 1904 until the outbreak of the war, Herrmann points to changes in the balance of military power to explain why the war began in 1914, instead of at some other time. Russia was incapable of waging a European war in the aftermath of its defeat at the hands of Japan in 1904-5, but in 1912, when Russia appeared to be regaining its capacity to fight, an unprecedented land-armaments race began. Consequently, when the July crisis of 1914 developed, the atmosphere of military competition made war a far more likely outcome than it would have been a decade earlier.

Author : Bruce Levine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0195147626

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Levine sheds light on such hot-button topics as what the Confederacy was fighting for, whether black southerners were willing to fight in large numbers in defense of the South, and what this episode foretold about life and politics in the post-war South.