Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War

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• Confederate Industry i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface vii
• Introduction: Southern Manufacturing Circa 1860 xiii
• Confederate Industry 2
• 1: The Advent of Abraham C. Myers, Quartermaster General of the Confederacy 3
• 2: The Reign of Quartermasters 42
• 3: Confederate Mobilization 93
• 4: Factories Under Siege 130
• 5: The Bureau of Foreign Supplies and the Crenshaw Line 155
• 6: The Coming of Total War 180
• 7: The Tortuous Course Toward Economic Reconstruction 228
• 8: Forging the New South 273
• Appendix A - Abstract of Confederate Census of Major Lower South Factories—may 1864 291
• Appendix B - Abstract of Confederate Census of North Carolina Factories—november 1864 293

• Confederate Industry i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface vii
• Introduction: Southern Manufacturing Circa 1860 xiii
• Confederate Industry 2
• 1: The Advent of Abraham C. Myers, Quartermaster General of the Confederacy 3
• 2: The Reign of Quartermasters 42
• 3: Confederate Mobilization 93
• 4: Factories Under Siege 130
• 5: The Bureau of Foreign Supplies and the Crenshaw Line 155
• 6: The Coming of Total War 180
• 7: The Tortuous Course Toward Economic Reconstruction 228
• 8: Forging the New South 273
• Appendix A - Abstract of Confederate Census of Major Lower South Factories—may 1864 291
• Appendix B - Abstract of Confederate Census of North Carolina Factories—november 1864 293
• Appendix C - Statistical Survey of Workers in Ten Savannah River Mills—june 1864–june 1865 295
• Appendix D - Assets of Selected Mills in the Summer of 1865 297
• Notes 299
• Bibliographical Essay on Selected Sources 369
• Works Cited 377
• Index 395