Author: Quincy Adams GillmorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Pulaski (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Official Report to the United States Engineer Department, of the Siege and Reduction of Fort Pulaski, Georgia, February, March, and April, 1862
Author: Quincy Adams GillmorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Pulaski (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Engineer and Artillery operations against the defences of Charleston Harbor in 1863; with a Supplement ... Illustrated by eighty-three plates and views
Author: Quincy Adams GillmorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Index-reference Catalogue of the Library of the Treasury Department
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War for the Year ...
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Papers on Practical Engineering
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military field engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Sand, Science, and the Civil War
Author: Scott HippensteelPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082036357X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The influence of sedimentary geology on the strategy, combat, and tactics of the American Civil War is a subject that has been neglected by military historians. Sedimentary geology influenced everything from the nature of the landscape (flat vs. rolling terrain) to the effectiveness of the weapons (a single grain of sand can render a rifle musket as useless as a club). Sand, Science, and the Civil War investigates the role of sedimentary geology on the campaigns and battles of the Civil War on multiple scales, with a special emphasis on the fighting along the coastlines. At the start of the Civil War the massive brick citadels guarding key coastal harbors and shipyards were thought to be invincible to artillery attack. The Union bombardment of Savannah's key defensive fortification, Fort Pulaski, demonstrated the vulnerability of this type of fortress to the new rifled artillery available to the Union; Fort Pulaski surrendered within a day. When the Union later tried to capture the temporary sand fortifications of Battery Wagner (protecting Charleston) and Fort Fisher (protecting Wilmington) they employed similar tactics but with disastrous results. The value of sand in defensive positions vastly minimized the Federal advantage in artillery, making these coastal strongpoints especially costly to capture. Through this geologically centered historic lens, Scott Hippensteel explores the way sediments and sedimentary rocks influenced the fighting in all theaters of war and how geologic resources were exploited by both sides during the five years of conflict.
