Author: Claud E. Fuller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494102869
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.

Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780737031591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Powerful images and vivid narrative are combined in a unique catalog of Civil War artifacts, tactical maps and other battle accouterments.

Author: Earl J. Coates
Publisher: Thomas Publications (PA)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Author: Harry Turtledove
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0307792358
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577

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"It is absolutely unique--without question the most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read." Professor James M. McPherson Pultizer Prize-winning BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM January 1864--General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equpped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower. Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: Its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking--and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantitites to the Confederates. The name of the weapon is the AK-47.... Selected by the Science Fiction Book Club A Main Selection of the Military Book Club

Author: Gordon L. Jones
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820346853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Throughout his life, Atlanta resident George W. Wray Jr. (1936–2004) built a collection of more than six hundred of the rarest Confederate artifacts including not just firearms and edged weapons but also flags, uniforms, and accoutrements. Today, Wray’s collection forms an integral part of the Atlanta History Center’s holdings of some eleven thousand Civil War artifacts. Confederate Odyssey tells the story of the Civil War through the Wray Collection. Analyzing the collection as material evidence, Gordon L. Jones demonstrates how a slave-based economy on the cusp of industrialization attempted to fight an industrial war. The broad range of the collection includes many rare or one-of-a-kind objects, such as a patent model and early inventions by gun maker George W. Morse, the bloodstained coat of a seventeen-year-old South Carolina soldier, battle flags made of cloth imported from England, and arms made in Georgia, the heart of the Confederacy’s burgeoning military-industrial complex. As Civil War history, Confederate Odyssey benefits from the study of material remains as it bridges the domains of professional scholars and amateur collectors such as Wray. The book tells of the stories, significance, and context of these artifacts to general readers and Civil War buffs alike. The Wray Collection is more than a gathering of relics; it is a tale of historical truths revealed in small details.

Author: John M. Murphy (M.D.)
Publisher: Graphic Publishers
ISBN: 9781882824014
Category : Muzzle-loading firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 761

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Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Education
ISBN: 9780737031546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Author: Guy R. Hasegawa
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809331314
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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The four years of the Civil War saw bloodshed on a scale unprecedented in the history of the United States. Thousands of soldiers and sailors from both sides who survived the horrors of the war faced hardship for the rest of their lives as amputees. Now Guy R. Hasegawa presents the first volume to explore the wartime provisions made for amputees in need of artificial limbs—programs that, while they revealed stark differences between the resources and capabilities of the North and the South, were the forebears of modern government efforts to assist in the rehabilitation of wounded service members. Hasegawa draws upon numerous sources of archival information to offer a comprehensive look at the artificial limb industry as a whole, including accounts of the ingenious designs employed by manufacturers and the rapid advancement of medical technology during the Civil War; illustrations and photographs of period prosthetics; and in-depth examinations of the companies that manufactured limbs for soldiers and bid for contracts, including at least one still in existence today. An intriguing account of innovation, determination, humanitarianism, and the devastating toll of battle, Mending Broken Soldiers shares the never-before-told story of the artificial-limb industry of the Civil War and provides a fascinating glimpse into groundbreaking military health programs during the most tumultuous years in American history. Univeristy Press Books for Public and Secondary Schools 2013 edition

Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780737031584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Powerful images and vivid narrative are combined in a unique catalog of Civil War artifacts, tactical maps and other battle accouterments.

Author: William Bennett Edwards
Publisher: Book Sales
ISBN: 9780890095843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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A detailed, photographically illustrated examination of the production and use of firearms in the North and the South during the years of the Civil War