By: Bryan
Ah, yes, the hat with the large badge to use as an aiming point. The problem of having the military based primarily in the South is that the soldiers react with the good old boys on a daily basis and...
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By: Badtux
The South actually had plenty of weapons, and sufficient manpower if said manpower had been utilized efficiently. Between Tredegar Ironworks in Richmond (the whole reason the capitol was put in...
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I’m looking at the 1860 Census figures from the University of Virgina library and they indicate a shortage of manufacturing capacity. They had the weapons provided by the Federal government for the...
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By: Badtux
One thing you overlook is that it simply did not take much in the way of manufacturing capacity to build a ball-and-cap rifle or muzzle-loading cannon. Sand casting is fairly easy if you have a model...
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By: Kryten42
Yep! We have many Russian Engineers and other professionals here, and have had for a long time. I helped a Russian Geologist/Mining Engineer get work at a diamond mine in WA a decade ago (he was...
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It doesn’t matter much what you can build if you can’t get it to where it is needed, a lesson that is being highlighted by the situation on the Afghan-Pak border. When the South lost control of its...
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I will just point out that the South never lost a battle due to lack of guns or powder. Lack of food and soldiers, on the other hand, was a different issue. And the South’s transportation issues were...
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I actually did elementary school in various schools in Okaloosa County, middle school primarily in Europe, and high school all over, finishing up in upstate New York, my parents ‘home town’ after my...
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By: Badtux
When I was in college I took a history course under a guy who literally wrote the book on Louisiana during the American Civil War (as in, the only book specializing on the subject, he wrote it). We got...
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By: Bryan
The only good way to find out what happened was to look at the original sources. I have more confidence in the letters and journals preserved within my extended family about conditions in upstate New...
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