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







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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