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Arming the confederacy[electronic resource] :how Virginia's minerals forged the Rebel war machine /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	622.09755
書名/作者:	Arming the confederacy : how Virginia's minerals forged the Rebel war machine // by Robert C. Whisonant.
作者:	Whisonant, Robert C.
出版者:	Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, 2015.
面頁冊數:	xv, 206 p. : : ill., digital ;; 24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
標題:	Mines and mineral resources - History - 19th century. - Virginia
標題:	Popular Science.
標題:	Popular Earth Science.
標題:	Mineral Resources.
標題:	Historical Geology.
標題:	History.
標題:	Regional and Cultural Studies.
標題:	Interdisciplinary Studies.
標題:	Virginia - Economic conditions - 19th century.
ISBN:	9783319145082 (electronic bk.)
ISBN:	9783319145075 (paper)
內容註:	Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Minerals and Warfare -- Terrain and a Tale of Two Nations -- The Land They Fought For -- Niter and Gunpowder -- Bullets, Firearms, and Colonel Chiswell's Mines -- The Lead Mines Under Attack -- The Saltville Salt Works -- Two Battles and a Massacre -- Iron, Civilizations, and War -- Virginia's Iron Industry in the Civil War -- Coal, Confederate Mines, and the CSS Virginia -- Confederate Railroads -- Union Raiders in the New River Valley -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
摘要、提要註:	This is a fresh look at the American Civil War from the standpoint of the natural resources necessary to keep the armies in the field. This story of the links between minerals, topography, and the war in western Virginia now comes to light in a way that enhances our understanding of America's greatest trial. Five mineral products – niter, lead, salt, iron, and coal – were absolutely essential to wage war in the 1860s. For the armies of the South, those resources were concentrated in the remote Appalachian highlands of southwestern Virginia. From the beginning of the war, the Union knew that the key to victory was the destruction or occupation of the mines, furnaces, and forges located there, as well as the railroad that moved the resources to where they were desperately needed. To achieve this, Federal forces repeatedly advanced into the treacherous mountainous terrain to fight some of the most savage battles of the War.
電子資源:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14508-2

Arming the confederacy[electronic resource] :how Virginia's minerals forged the Rebel war machine /
Whisonant, Robert C.

Arming the confederacyhow Virginia's minerals forged the Rebel war machine /[electronic resource] :by Robert C. Whisonant. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2015. - xv, 206 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Minerals and Warfare -- Terrain and a Tale of Two Nations -- The Land They Fought For -- Niter and Gunpowder -- Bullets, Firearms, and Colonel Chiswell's Mines -- The Lead Mines Under Attack -- The Saltville Salt Works -- Two Battles and a Massacre -- Iron, Civilizations, and War -- Virginia's Iron Industry in the Civil War -- Coal, Confederate Mines, and the CSS Virginia -- Confederate Railroads -- Union Raiders in the New River Valley -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

This is a fresh look at the American Civil War from the standpoint of the natural resources necessary to keep the armies in the field. This story of the links between minerals, topography, and the war in western Virginia now comes to light in a way that enhances our understanding of America's greatest trial. Five mineral products – niter, lead, salt, iron, and coal – were absolutely essential to wage war in the 1860s. For the armies of the South, those resources were concentrated in the remote Appalachian highlands of southwestern Virginia. From the beginning of the war, the Union knew that the key to victory was the destruction or occupation of the mines, furnaces, and forges located there, as well as the railroad that moved the resources to where they were desperately needed. To achieve this, Federal forces repeatedly advanced into the treacherous mountainous terrain to fight some of the most savage battles of the War.

ISBN: 9783319145082 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-14508-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

606924
Mines and mineral resources
--History--Virginia--19th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

387271
Virginia
--Economic conditions--19th century.

LC Class. No.: TN24.V8

Dewey Class. No.: 622.09755

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