A Contribution to the History of the Confederate Ordnance Bureau (Part 4 of Round Ball to Rimfire: A History of Civil War Small Arms Ammunition)

This is the first of three Confederate volumes. The text sets the stage for the organization of the Confederate Ordnance Bureau and the emergence of Josiah Gorgas, Chief of Ordnance, who was one of the few federal ordnance officers to resign his post and join with the "rebellion." But, Gorgas could not run the Bureau alone, and the addition of John W. Mallet to his staff as Superinten More »