Civil War Heavy Explosive Ordnance: A Guide to Large Artillery Projectiles, Torpedoes, and Mines
by Jack Bell
University of North Texas Press, 2003
Cloth: 978-1-57441-163-8 | eISBN: 978-1-57441-429-5
Library of Congress Classification UF753.B44 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 623.451097309034
Cloth: 978-1-57441-163-8 | eISBN: 978-1-57441-429-5
Library of Congress Classification UF753.B44 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 623.451097309034
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface ................................................................................................................. vii
Acknowledgments .................................................................................................... x
Introduction.................................................................................... 1
The Role of Heavy Explosive Ordnance in Strategic Battles...................................... 19
Guide to Using Data Sheets ..................................................................................... 30
Glossary ................................................................................................................ 36
Section 1 -Large Smoothbore Projectiles............................................. 43
Shot, Shell, andCase Shot...................................................................43
Canister ...................................................................................................... 90
Grape Stands and Quilted Grape............................................. 99
Section 2 - Introduction to Rifled Projectiles....................................................... 113
Absterdam ................................................................................................. 114
Archer ....................................................................................................... 117
Armstrong .................................................................................................120
Blakely ...................................................................................................... 133
Britten ....................................................................................................... 141
Brooke ....................................................................................................... 153
Broun ........................................................................................................ 197
Cochran ..................................................................................................... 204
Dahlgren ...................................................................................................207
Dyer .......................................................................................................... 219
Harding .....................................................................................................225
Hotchkiss ..................................................................................................238
James ........................................................................................................255
Lynall Thomas .......................................................................................264
Maury .......................................................................................................268
Mullane ..................................................................................... see Tennessee
Parrott.......................................................................................271
Preston-Blakely ..... ...................................................................................320
Read ..........................................................................................................324
Sawyer ......................................................................................................354
Schenkl ....................................................................................................359
Selma ...................................................................................................... 379
Skates ........................................................................................................388
Stafford ............................................... 391
Tennessee...............................................................................................398
Tredegar .......................................................................................432
Whitworth .................................................................................................445
Miscellaneous..................................................................................453
Section 3 - Torpedoes and Mines ..............................................................471
Appendices
Appendix A - Missing and Unaccounted for Projectiles .............................. 497
Appendix B - Civil War Cannon Rifling.....................................................499
Appendix C - Rifled Projectile Sabot Designs............................................. 506
Bibliography ........................................................................................................527
Index .................................................................................................................... 531
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