Ploughshares into Swords: Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance by Frank E. Vandiver
Ploughshares into Swords: Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance

Frank E. Vandiver

Ploughshares into Swords: Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance

Frank E. Vandiver

349 pages first pub 1977 (editions)

emotional informative medium-paced

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Begun in the late 1940s, before Vandiver enrolled in the doctoral program at Tulane University, research for this book started with his interviewing the Confederate ordnance chief's daughters and included perusal of Gorgas's 1857-1877 journals. Go...

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