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Author : Berkeley R. Lewis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Small Arms and Ammunition in the United States Service, 1776-1865 written by Berkeley R. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Berkeley R. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Small Arms and Ammunition in the United States Service 1776-1865 written by Berkeley R. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Berkeley Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781492256656
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Small Arms and Ammunition in the United States Service, 1776-1865 written by Berkeley Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small arms and ammunition in the United States service, 1776-1865 (Smithsonian miscellaneous collections, v. 129, whole vol)
Author : Charles E. Heller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book America's First Battles, 1776-1965 written by Charles E. Heller and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, a collection of eleven original essays by many of the foremost U.S. military historians, focuses on the transition of the Army from parade ground to battleground in each of nine wars the United States has fought. Through careful analysis of organization, training, and tactical doctrine, each essay seeks to explain the strengths and weaknesses evidenced by the outcome of the first significant engagement or campaign of the war. The concluding essay sets out to synthesize the findings and to discover whether or not American first battles manifest a characteristic "rhythm." America's First Battles provides a novel and intellectually challenging view of how America has prepared for war and how operations and tactics have changed over time. The thrust of the book, the emphasis on operational history, is at the forefront of scholarly activity in military history. This book is part of the Modern War Studies series.
Author : George D. Moller
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826349994
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume II written by George D. Moller and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New data surrounding the procurement and modifications of arms produced by the national armories, and under federal contract procured by the individual states and by individual members of militias, is presented here for the first time. This information, interwoven with military, political, economic, and social factors, results in new and better definitions and a clearer understanding of the arms’ historical context. Though this work focuses on military flintlock shoulder arms, details on the federal government’s procurement of arms for Indians during rapidly changing military policies of the period is also included. American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume II, contains more than three hundred photographs. As with the previous volume, Volume II is written primarily for students of arms, but also contains material of interest to historians, museum specialists, collectors, and dealers of antique arms.
Author : George D. Moller
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826350003
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book American Military Shoulder Arms written by George D. Moller and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VOLUME 1: American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume I: Colonial and Revolutionary War Arms focuses on the arms used from the early exploratory period throughout the colonial period and the American Revolution. Arranged chronologically, it contains definitive descriptions of the pre-flintlock and flintlock shoulder arms used in North America and detailed accounts of the development and progression of military regulation shoulder arms of the major colonial powers from the early eighteenth century through the Revolutionary War.
Author : George D. Moller
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 082634996X
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume I written by George D. Moller and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume I: Colonial and Revolutionary War Arms focuses on the arms used from the early exploratory period throughout the colonial period and the American Revolution. Arranged chronologically, it contains definitive descriptions of the pre-flintlock and flintlock shoulder arms used in North America and detailed accounts of the development and progression of military regulation shoulder arms of the major colonial powers from the early eighteenth century through the Revolutionary War. Lavishly illustrated with more than four hundred vivid photographs of muskets, rifles, carbines, and other arms, this book offers an intelligent analysis of the shoulder arms procured and used by the colonists, colonial and state governments, and the Continental Congress.
Author : John Walter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472842243
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Weapons of the Civil War Cavalryman written by John Walter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the American Civil War, the mounted soldiers fighting on both sides of the conflict carried a wide array of weapons, from sabers and lances to carbines, revolvers, and other firearms. Though some sections of the cavalry placed their trust in the sabre, the advent of viable breechloading carbines -- especially repeaters such as the Spencer -- was to transform warfare within little more than a decade of General Lee's final surrender at Appomattox. However, output struggled to keep up with unprecedented demands on manufacturing technology and distribution in areas where communication was difficult and in states whose primary aim was to equip their own men rather than contribute to the arming of Federal or Confederate regiments. In addition, the almost unparalleled losses of men and equipment ensured that almost any firearm, effectual or not, was pressed into service. Consequently, the sheer variety of weaponry carried reflected the mounted soldiers' various roles in different theatres of operation, but also the availability -- or otherwise -- of weapons, notably on the Confederate side. Fully illustrated, this study assesses the effectiveness of the many different weapons arming the Civil War cavalryman and analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the decisions made after 1865 concerning the armament of the US cavalry.
Author : William C. Davis
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806130606
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Fighting Men of the Civil War written by William C. Davis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the everyday life of the common soldier during the Civil War, including information on what life was like for the soldiers in basic training, combat, and imprisonment.
Author : Charles M. Haecker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book A Thunder of Cannon written by Charles M. Haecker and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald R. Switzer
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806151307
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Steamboat Bertrand and Missouri River Commerce written by Ronald R. Switzer and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 1, 1865, the steamboat Bertrand, a sternwheeler bound from St. Louis to Fort Benton in Montana Territory, hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank twenty miles north of Omaha. The crew removed only a few items before the boat was silted over. For more than a century thereafter, the Bertrand remained buried until it was discovered by treasure hunters, its cargo largely intact. This book categorizes some 300,000 artifacts recovered from the Bertrand in 1968, and also describes the invention, manufacture, marketing, distribution, and sale of these products and traces their route to the frontier mining camps of Montana Territory. The ship and its contents are a time capsule of mid-nineteenth-century America, rich with information about the history of industry, technology, and commerce in the Trans-Missouri West. In addition to enumerating the items the boat was transporting to Montana, and offering a photographic sample of the merchandise, Switzer places the Bertrand itself in historical context, examining its intended use and the technology of light-draft steam-driven river craft. His account of steamboat commerce provides multiple insights into the industrial revolution in the East, the nature and importance of Missouri River commerce in the mid-1800s, and the decline in this trade after the Civil War. Switzer also introduces the people associated with the Bertrand. He has unearthed biographical details illuminating the private and social lives of the officers, crew members, and passengers, as well as the consignees to whom the cargo was being shipped. He offers insight into not only the passengers’ reasons for traveling to the frontier mining camps of Montana Territory, but also the careers of some of the entrepreneurs and political movers and shakers of the Upper Missouri in the 1860s. This unique reference for historians of commerce in the American West will also fascinate anyone interested in the technology and history of riverine transport.
Author : Charles M. Haecker
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781603443555
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (435 download)
Download or read book On the Prairie of Palo Alto: Historical Archaeology of the U.S.–Mexican War Battlefield written by Charles M. Haecker and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One need not be schooled in military history or archaeology to benefit from this research, for the authors do an excellent job of maintaining the interest of [both] the scholarly reader and anyone new to these subjects."--Journal of the West
Author : Carl P. Russell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1626369291
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men written by Carl P. Russell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic, scholarly history of the fur trappers and traders of the early nineteenth century focuses on the devices that enabled the opening of the untracked American west. Sprinkled with interesting facts and old western lore, this guide to traps and tools is also a lively history. The era of the mountain man is distinct in American history, and Russell’s exhaustive coverage on the guns, traps, knives, axes, and other iron tools of this era, along with meticulous appendices, is astonishing. The result of thirty-five years of painstaking research, this is the definitive guide to the tools of the mountain men.
Author : George D. Moller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Military Shoulder Arms: From the 1790s to the end of the flintlock period written by George D. Moller and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon L. Olson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802868010
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Notorious Isaac Earl and His Scouts written by Gordon L. Olson and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While large armies engaged in epic battles in the eastern theater of the Civil War, a largely unchronicled story was unfolding along the Mississippi River. Thirty "Special Scouts" under the command of Lieutenant Isaac Newton Earl patrolled the river, gathering information about Confederate troop activity, arresting Rebel smugglers and guerillas, and opposing anti-Union insurrection. Gordon Olson gives this special unit full book-length treatment for the first time in The Notorious Isaac Earl and His Scouts. Olson uses new research in assembling his detailed yet very readable account of Earl, a dynamic leader who rose quickly through Union Army ranks to command this elite group. He himself was captured by the Confederates three times and escaped three times, and he developed a strategic -- and later romantic -- relationship with a Southern woman, Jane O'Neal, who became one of his spies. In keeping the river open for Union Army movement of men and supplies to New Orleans, Earl's Scouts played an important, heretofore unheralded, role in the Union's war effort.
Author : Joseph G. Bilby
Publisher : Westholme Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Small Arms at Gettysburg written by Joseph G. Bilby and published by Westholme Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Effect of Soldiers' Weapons on the Turning Point of the Civil War The three-day battle of Gettysburg has probably been the subject of more books and articles than any other comparable event. Surprisingly, until this work, no one has analyzed the firearms and other individual soldier's weapons used at Gettysburg in any great detail. The battle was a watershed, with military weapons technologies representing the past, present, and future--sabers, smoothbores, rifles, and breechloaders--in action alongside each other, providing a unique opportunity to compare performance and use, as well as determining how particular weapons and their deployment affected the outcome and course of the battle. Small Arms at Gettysburg: Infantry and Cavalry Weapons in America's Greatest Battle covers all of the individual soldier's weapons--muskets, rifle-muskets, carbines, repeaters, sharpshooter arms, revolvers, and swords--providing a detailed examination of their history and development, technology, capabilities, and use on the field at Gettysburg. Here we learn that the smoothbore musket, although beloved by some who carried it, sang its swan song, the rifle-musket began to come into its own, and the repeating rifle, although tactically mishandled, gave a glimpse of future promise. This is the story of the weapons and men who carried them into battle during three days in July 1863.
Author : Melissa A. Connor
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806170506
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn written by Melissa A. Connor and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the Custer massacres on June 25, 1876, the question has been asked: What happened - what REALLY happened - at the Battle of the Little Bighorn? We know some of the answers, because half of George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry - the men with Major Marcus Reno and Captain Frederick Benteen - survived the fight, but what of the half that did not, the troopers, civilians, scouts, and journalist who were with Custer? Now, because a grass fire in August 1983 cleared the terrain of brush and grass and made possible thorough archaeological examinations of the battlefield in 1984 and 1985, we have many answers to important questions. On the basis of the archaeological evidence presented in this book, we know more about what kinds of weapons were used against the cavalry. We know exactly where many of the men fought, how they died, and what happened to their bodies at the time of or after death. We know how the troopers were deployed, what kind of clothing they wore, what kind of equipment they had, how they fought. Through the techniques of historical archaeology and forensic anthropology, the remains and grave of one of Custer’s scouts, Mitch Boyer, have been identified. And through geomorphology and the process of elimination, we know with almost 100 percent certainty where the twenty-eight missing men who supposedly were buried en masse in Deep Ravine will be found.
