Ploughshares Into Swords Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance

by Frank E. Vandiver

$140 · Offered by Good Books in the Woods

First edition · Signed

Hardcover, Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1952. First Edition. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. Inscribed & dated by Author on front endpaper. Gorgas was Chief of Ordnance of the Confederate Army charged with supplying an almost completely agrarian nation with the arms, ammunition, and industries necessary to keep its armies in the field against a mighty northern industrial foe. Very

• Binding: Hardcover

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