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Civil War Heavy Explosive Ordnance : A Guide to Large Artillery Projectiles, Torpedoes, and Mines by Jack Bell (2003, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of North Texas Press
ISBN-101574411632
ISBN-139781574411638
eBay Product ID (ePID)2456096
Product Key Features
Book TitleCivil War Heavy Explosive Ordnance : a Guide to Large Artillery Projectiles, Torpedoes, and Mines
Number of Pages592 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary Science, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), General, Military
Publication Year2003
IllustratorYes
GenreTechnology & Engineering, Reference, Antiques & Collectibles, History
AuthorJack Bell
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight53.7 Oz
Item Length10.2 in
Item Width8.4 in
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LCCN2002-045577
ReviewsThis will become a required reference guide at every Civil War site and related museum. - Wayne E. Stark, Civil War artillery historian
SynopsisCivil War Heavy Explasive Ordnance is the definitive reference book on Union and Confederate large caliber artillery projectiles, torpedoes, and mines. Some of these projectiles are from the most famous battles of the Civil War, such as those at Fort Sumter, Charleston, Vicksburg, and Richmond. Others were fired from famous cannon, such as the ......, Civil War Heavy Explasive Ordnance is the definitive reference book on Union and Confederate large caliber artillery projectiles, torpedoes, and mines. Some of these projectiles are from the most famous battles of the Civil War, such as those at Fort Sumter, Charleston, Vicksburg, and Richmond. Others were fired from famous cannon, such as the ""Swamp Angel"" of Charleston and ""Whistling Dick"" of Vicksburg. And some were involved in torpedo attacks against major warships. Jack Bell covers more than 360 projectiles from public and private collections in smoothbore calibers of thirty-two-pounder and up, rifled projectiles of four-inch caliber and larger, and twenty-one Union and Confederate torpedoes and mines. Each data sheet shows multiple views of the projectile or torpedo (using more than one thousand photos) with data including diameter, weight, gun used to fire it, rarity index, and provenance. This comprehensive volume will be of great interest to Civil War historians museum curators, field archaeologists, private collectors dealers, and consultants on unexploded ordnance., Civil War Heavy Explosive Ordnance is the definitive reference book on Union and Confederate large caliber artillery projectiles, torpedoes, and mines. Some of these projectiles are from the most famous battles of the Civil War, such as those at Fort Sumter, Charleston, Vicksburg, Richmond, Fort Pulaski, Fort Fisher, Mobile Bay, Port Hudson, and the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Others were fired from famous cannon: the "Swamp Angel" of Charleston, the 10-inch Parrott rifles and 12.75 Blakely rifles used in Charleston, "Whistling Dick" of Vicksburg, and the 8-inch British Armstrong rifle and 8-inch Blakely rifle of Fort Fisher. And some are from ships such as the Alabama, Richmond, Pawnee, and Montauk, or were involved in torpedo attacks against major warships. Jack Bell covers more than 360 projectiles in smoothbore calibers of 32-pounder and up and rifled projectiles of 4-inch caliber and larger. Bell also documents twenty-one Union and Confederate torpedoes and mines, both those from historical records and those that have survived to modern times. Each projectile and torpedo is presented in a data sheet showing multiple views of the specimen and providing data including, but not limited to, diameter, weight, the gun used to fire it, rarity index, and provenance. Over the years those studying Civil War ordnance have been relying on the out-of-print 1973 publication by Sydney Kerksis and Thomas Dickey, Heavy Artillery Projectiles of the Civil War 1861-1865, which covers less than half the material presented in Bell's book. Beautifully illustrated with more than 1,000 photos of projectiles from public and private collections, Civil War Heavy Explosive Ordnance is the new standard reference volume and will be of great interest to Civil War historians, museum curators, field archaeologists, private collectors, dealers, and consultants on unexploded ordnance.
LC Classification NumberUF753.B44 2003
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