Citizens of Augusta and Richmond County, Georgia During the Civil War, 1860-1865
Author: Arthur Ray Rowland
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 135
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Author: Arthur Ray Rowland
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 135
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Florence Fleming Corley
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Florence Fleming CORLEY
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 130
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Colcock Jones (Jr.)
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work details the political, social and economic effects the Civil War had on Georgia.
Author: LeeAnn Whites
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780820317144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGender is the last vantage point from which the Civil War has yet to be examined in-depth, says LeeAnn Whites. Gender concepts and constructions, Whites says, deeply influenced the beliefs underpinning both the Confederacy and its vestiges to which white southerners clung for decades after the Confederacy's defeat. Whites's arguments and observations, which center on the effects of the conflict on the South's gender hierarchy, will challenge our understanding of the war and our acceptance of its historiography.
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780937044032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: C. L. Bragg
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781570036576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLavishly 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. Early in the war President Jefferson Davis realized the Confederacy's need to supply its own gunpowder. Accordingly Davis selected Col. George Washington Rains to build a gunpowder factory. An engineer and West Point graduate, Rains relied primarily on a written pamphlet rather than on practical experience in building the powder mill, yet he succeeded in designing a model of efficiency and safety. He sited the facilities at Augusta, Georgia, because of the city's central location, canal transportation, access to water power, railroad facilities, and relative security from attack. As much a story of people as of machinery, Never for Want of Powder recounts the ingenuity of the individuals involved with the project. A cadre of talented subordinates--including Frederick Wright, C. Shaler Smith, William Pendleton, and Isadore P. Girardey--assisted Rains to a degree not previously appreciated by historians. This volume also documents the coordinated outflow of gunpowder and ammunition, and Rains's difficulty in preparing for the defense of Augusta. Today a lone chimney along the Savannah River stands as the only reminder of the munitions facility that once occupied that site. With its detailed reproductions of architectural and mechanical schematics and its expansive vista on the Confederacy, Never for Want of Powder restores the Augusta Powder Works to its rightful place in American lore.
Author: Arthur Ray Rowland
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 30
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 39
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Published: 1975
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