Never For Want Of Powder

Download Never For Want Of Powder full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Never For Want Of Powder ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Never for Want of Powder

Never for Want of Powder
Author :
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages : 348
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1570036578
ISBN-13 : 9781570036576
Rating : 4/5 (576 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Never for Want of Powder by : C. L. Bragg

Download or read book Never for Want of Powder written by C. L. Bragg and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly 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.


Never for Want of Powder Related Books

Never for Want of Powder
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: C. L. Bragg
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Lavishly 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-clas
Confederate Political Economy
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Michael Brem Bonner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-11 - Publisher: LSU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Confederate Political Economy, Michael Bonner suggests that the Confederate nation was an expedient corporatist state -- a society that required all sectors
Powder Monkey
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Paul Dowswell
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-10 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Thirteen-year-old Sam endures harsh conditions, battles, and a shipwreck after being pressed into service aboard the HMS Miranda during the Napoleonic Wars.
The History of the Jews of Richmond from 1769 to 1917
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Herbert Tobias Ezekiel
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1917 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From the Jewish community of 1769 to that of 1917 is a far cry--the one resident of colonial times to the lawyers, doctors, bankers, artists, merchant princes a
Promise of Blood
Language: en
Pages: 574
Authors: Brian McClellan
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-16 - Publisher: Hachette UK

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

'Just plain awesome' Brandon Sanderson **Winner of the David Gemmell Morningstar Award** It's a bloody business, overthrowing a king. Now, amid the chaos, a whi