Titlebook: Arming the Confederacy; How Virginia’s Miner Robert C. Whisonant Book 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 American Civi

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Niter and Gunpowder,s’ meetings where people who saw him invariably were struck by his thick shock of unruly dark hair standing out amid his white-headed comrades. When asked how his hair had stayed that way, he replied it was because he never touched it with water.

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Introduction,480 BCE, the culmination of the struggle between the Greeks and Persians for eastern Mediterranean hegemony. After blunting an earlier Persian threat at Marathon, the citizens of Athens were advised by the Oracle at Delphi that a “wooden wall” would save the city. The Athenians came to believe that

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Minerals and Warfare,sacks. But where did the iron come from to make the rifles they shouldered and the cannon, shot, and shell trailing along behind them? And from where was the coal mined that fired the forges and foundries to cast all that ordnance? Whence came the lead bullets in their pouches or the gunpowder that

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Terrain and a Tale of Two Nations,ere he married and settled into life in his adopted state, teaching and continuing his own education by studying geology, surveying, and engineering. His remarkable mapping skills soon emerged when he began to draw topographic maps depicting the local countryside over which he roamed. Once the war c

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The Land They Fought For,iece of high ground known as Cemetery Ridge (Fig. 4.1). For three fearfully bloody days in July 1863, Union General George G. Meade’s Army of the Potomac sat atop this north-south trending spine of rock while Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia tried and failed to take it from them. Perhaps th