Never for Want of Powder : The Confederate Powder Works in Augusta, Georgia

ISBN-13: 9781570036576 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 318 str.

C. L. Bragg; Charles D. Ross; Gordon A. Blaker

Opis

Lavishly illustrated with seventy-four color plates and fifty black-and-white photographs and drawings, Never for Want of Powder tells the story of a world-class munitions factory constructed by the Confederacy in 1861, the only large-scale permanent building project undertaken by a government often characterized as lacking modern industrial values. In this comprehensive examination of the powder works, five scholars--a historian, physicist, curator, architectural historian, and biographer--bring their combined expertise to the task of chronicling gunpowder production during the Civil War. In doing so, they make a major contribution to understanding the history of wartime technology and Confederate ingenuity.