Arming the Confederacy : how Virginia's minerals forged the Rebel war machine /: how Virginia's minerals forged the Rebel war machine. (2015)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Arming the Confederacy : how Virginia's minerals forged the Rebel war machine /: how Virginia's minerals forged the Rebel war machine. (2015)
- Main Title:
- Arming the Confederacy : how Virginia's minerals forged the Rebel war machine
- Further Information:
- Note: Robert C. Whisonant.
- Authors:
- Whisonant, Robert C (Robert Clyde), 1941-
- Contents:
- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Minerals and Warfare -- Terrain and a Tale of Two Nations -- The Land They Fought For -- Niter and Gunpowder -- Bullets, Firearms, and Colonel Chiswell?s Mines -- The Lead Mines Under Attack -- The Saltville Salt Works -- Two Battles and a Massacre -- Iron, Civilizations, and War -- Virginia?s Iron Industry in the Civil War -- Coal, Confederate Mines, and the CSS Virginia -- Confederate Railroads -- Union Raiders in the New River Valley -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Publisher Details:
- Cham : Springer
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xv, 206 pages), illustrations
- Subjects:
- 622.09755
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History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783319145082
3319145088
9783319145075 - Related ISBNs:
- 331914507X
9783319145075 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 25, 2015). - Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.371787
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