Arming the Union: Gunmakers in Windsor, Vermont

by American Precision Museum, Carrie Brown Ph.D., American Museum

At the beginning of the Civil War, the U.S. Army was small, its weapons were largely outdated, and the North had just lost control of the arms-making facility at Harper's Ferry. And yet, over the next four years, Union troops would be furnished with 1.5 million rifles, and tens of thousands of carbines and pistols. How was it possible, in the early 1860s, to put that many weapons into the field in such a short time?Arming the Union tells the story...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B093MZB9KJ
• ISBN13: 9798736975952
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 50 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"