Arms and Equipment of the Civil War

About “Arms and Equipment of the Civil War”

The book provides an extensive overview of the military hardware and technology used during the Civil War, focusing on the materiel available to the armies and navies of both the Union and the Confederacy. It includes descriptions of equipment such as iron-clad gunboats, submarine torpedoes, military balloons, pontoon bridges, percussion grenades, and siege artillery, supplemented by on-the-scene comments from soldiers about equipment and camp life, and enhanced with over 500 black-and-white illustrations.