Hoping to deter the Union navy from aggressive action on southern waterways during the Civil War, the Confederacy led the way in developing -torpedoes, - a term that in the nineteenth century referred to contact mines floating on or just below the water's service. With this book, two little-known but important manuscripts related to these valuable weapons become available for the first time. General Gabriel J. Rains, director of the Confederate Torpedo Bureau, penned his Torpedo Book as a manual for the fabrication and use of land mines and offensive and defensive water mines. With 21...
Hoping to deter the Union navy from aggressive action on southern waterways during the Civil War, the Confederacy led the way in developing -torpedoes...