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Lincoln and the Tools of War
By Robert V. Bruce
400 pages
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- Bobbs-Merrill
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- Indianapolis
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- 1956
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Foreword vii
- Contents xiii
- List of Illustrations xv
- Chapter 1 - Captain Dahlgren 3
- Chapter 2 - General Ripley 22
- Chapter 3 - Men Without Guns 37
- Chapter 4 - No Time for Novelties 59
- Chapter 5 - Inventors In The White Home 75
- Chapter 6 - Ramsay and the Arsenal 89
- Chapter 7 - Bureaucrats and Breechloaders 99
- Chapter 8 - The Coffee-Mill Gun 118
- Chapter 9 - Lincoln's Field Artillery 124
- Chapter 10 - Patent Nonsense 131
- Chapter 11 - The Trent Affair 145
- Chapter 12 - Winter of Discontent 151
- Title Page iii
- Foreword vii
- Contents xiii
- List of Illustrations xv
- Chapter 1 - Captain Dahlgren 3
- Chapter 2 - General Ripley 22
- Chapter 3 - Men Without Guns 37
- Chapter 4 - No Time for Novelties 59
- Chapter 5 - Inventors In The White Home 75
- Chapter 6 - Ramsay and the Arsenal 89
- Chapter 7 - Bureaucrats and Breechloaders 99
- Chapter 8 - The Coffee-Mill Gun 118
- Chapter 9 - Lincoln's Field Artillery 124
- Chapter 10 - Patent Nonsense 131
- Chapter 11 - The Trent Affair 145
- Chapter 12 - Winter of Discontent 151
- Chapter 13 - An Encounter at Hampton Roads 171
- Chapter 14 - The President Perseveres 179
- Chapter 15 - Trial by Combat 194
- Chapter 16 - Admiral Dahlgren 207
- Chapter 17 - Gunning for Charleston 228
- Chapter 18 - Ripley's Last Stand 249
- Chapter 19 - Farewell to Arms 268
- Chapter 20 - A Peal of Ordnance 289
- Notes 301
- Sources Cited 345
- Acknowledgments 355
- Index 358