The Civil War

by James I. Robertson

SUGGESTED READINGS

Bruce, Robert V., Lincoln and the Tools of War (1956). Fuller, Claud, The Rifled Musket (1958). ____, and Stewart, R. D., Firearms of the Confederacy (1944). Gluckman, Arcadi, United States Muskets, Rifles and Carbines (1948). Lewis, Berkeley R., Small Arms and Ammunition in the United States Service (1956). Mauncy, Albert, Artillery through the Ages (1949). Naisawald, L. Van Loan, Grape and Canister (1960). Peterson, Harold L., Notes on Ordnance of the American Civil War, 1861-1865 (1959). Wainwright, Charles S., A Diary of Battle, ed. Allan Nevins (1962). Wise, Jennings C., The Long Arm of Lee (1915, 1959).

This damaged wetplate, made in June, 1863, shows the 17th New York Battery drawn up in line near Washington, D. C.