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Ploughshares into Swords: Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)
Frank E. Vandiver
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| #2224586 in Books | 1994-08-01 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .89 x5.58 x8.58l,.94 | File type: PDF | 368 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By D.|It met all my expectations. (I am related to Josiah Gorgas)|7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| The man who armed the Confederacy|By Old Grump|When the Confederacy began to arm, weapons were in such short supply that serious consideration was given to arming the troops with pikes. When Lee surre|From the Back Cover|First published in 1952, Ploughshares into Swords is a compound study of the life and Civil War record of Josiah Gorgas. A West Point graduate of the class of 1840, Gorgas chose to enter the Ordnance Corps. He supplied Scott's march to Mexico
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.
Gorgas is credited with creating, in the Confederacy's ordnance department, "success beyond expectation." With the South having far less capacity to produce arms than the North and with communications from the field s...
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